Journal of Research Into Personality

[Silat]

A study of personalities over the course of 20 something years. Kids from 3-4 years old were followed for 20 years. Ignore the headline and read the article..

http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1142722231554&call_pageid=971358637177

How to spot a baby conservative
KID POLITICS | Whiny children, claims a new study, tend to grow up rigid and traditional. Future liberals, on the other hand ...
Mar. 19, 2006. 10:45 AM
KURT KLEINER
SPECIAL TO THE STAR


Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.

At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar conclusions a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.

But the new results are worth a look. In the 1960s Jack Block and his wife and fellow professor Jeanne Block (now deceased) began tracking more than 100 nursery school kids as part of a general study of personality. The kids' personalities were rated at the time by teachers and assistants who had known them for months. There's no reason to think political bias skewed the ratings — the investigators were not looking at political orientation back then. Even if they had been, it's unlikely that 3- and 4-year-olds would have had much idea about their political leanings.

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[Masherbrum]

I don't live in Kalifornia.

Karaya

[midnight Target]

Not living in California is what most whiny 4 year olds whine about.

[Silat]

Originally posted by midnight Target
Not living in California is what most whiny 4 year olds whine about.

He could have been part of the study:)

[Masherbrum]

hehe.   How ya doin Tahgut?  

Karaya

[lasersailor184]

I call bull****.  It's easy to pick out the inconsistancies in the article.  I'd love to tear the study apart too.

[Silat]

Originally posted by lasersailor184
I call bull****.  It's easy to pick out the inconsistancies in the article.  I'd love to tear the study apart too.

Ahhh another whiner:) Conservative?

[oarsman]

KID POLITICS | Whiny children, claims a new study, tend to grow up rigid and traditional. Future liberals, on the other hand ...
... The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.

So as adults the behavior is reversed.... The liberals tend to whine for government help and the conservatives want self reliance: less government interference. ...interesting

[Silat]

Originally posted by oarsman
So as adults the behavior is reversed.... The liberals tend to whine for government help and the conservatives want self reliance: less government interference. ...interesting

Yes and we sure got less government with this admin didnt we?

[midnight Target]

Originally posted by Masherbrum
hehe.   How ya doin Tahgut?  

Karaya

I mostly whine about living in California.

[oarsman]

Originally posted by Silat
Yes and we sure got less government with this admin didnt we?

Is that a whine?

I apologize.  I didn't realise we were talking about GWB.  I thought we were discussing the liberal / conservative spectrum.  my mistake.

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by midnight Target
I mostly whine about living in California.

<>  See you in the MA.

Karaya

[Masherbrum]

Originally posted by oarsman
Is that a whine?

I apologize.  I didn't realise we were talking about GWB.  I thought we were discussing the liberal / conservative spectrum.  my mistake.

Which is why I responded the way I did.  I gave this thread 10 posts by the time GWB was mentioned.  Silat beat that number by 1.

Karaya

[lazs2]

so silat... you are saying that liberals don't start out whiny and wimpy?

What is it you think that makes em all that way later?  Puberty?  lack of puberty?  estrogen?    Maybe it is simply diet?

lazs