Lovely! That's a kind of data obfuscation and "accidental" words reversal in conclusions, to be expected - if the authors themselves are psychotics!
This procedure was uncovered and reported by students (Steven G. Ludeke and Stig H. R. Rasmussen) for a number of publications. Which then lead to a forced retraction and erratum published by the authors. This article on Retraction Watch website describes what happened:
Retraction Watch
Tracking retractions as a window into the scientific process
Conservative political beliefs not linked to psychotic traits, as study claimed
(thanks Drew Maharaj!)
Quote:
Researchers have fixed a number of papers after mistakenly reporting that people who hold conservative political beliefs are more likely to exhibit traits associated with psychoticism, such as authoritarianism and tough-mindedness.
As one of the notices specifies, now it appears that liberal political beliefs are linked with psychoticism. That paper also swapped ideologies when reporting on people higher in neuroticism and social desirability (falsely claiming that you have socially desirable qualities); the original paper said those traits are linked with liberal beliefs, but they are more common among people with conservative values.
I would like to point out a theory (originally proposed by Stan P. aka "Dozent") and some of my articles linking collectivism with the atavistic fall-back to a hierarchical primate heard society, see here.
and here
Specifically:
Lack of social skills made us human
Scientists find liberal gene
and
Human regression, anthropology
Quote:
| "Nomadic" (Homo Sapiens) | "Boomers" (Simian Sapiens) |
|---|---|
| outwardly - individualists, inwardly - co-operative | outwardly - collectivists, inwardly - aggressive and competitive |
| introvert | extrovert |
| disobedient | followers |
| adaptive, flexible | static, rigid |
| racially blind | intolerant of strangers |
| value creativity | afraid of new |
| dislike static order | value stability |
| rely on individual work | work unconnected to wealth |
| authorities = problems | authorities = source of wealth |
| strong team bonds | strong social group bonds |
| manipulate environment | manipulate people |
| technical and science skills | lack of technical abilities |
| logic and math | verbal reasoning and rhetorics |
| observe what works | observe what others say |
| individual survival priority | group has priority |
| idealizes religions | uses religions |
| support commerce | consider it unfair profiteering |
| nomadic mentality | settled mentality |
| highly focused on 1 task | multitasker |
| "What I produce belongs to me" | "What you produce belongs to us" |
Last but not least, I recommend Susan Cain's book "Quiet..." on introvertism: where she describes some characters of people that would traditionally be associated with individualism (as opposed to collectivism). See also this.
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