Justin Trudeau's Ottawa home broken into with family inside
Freakinoldguy @ Wed Aug 20, 2014 2:14 am
andyt andyt:
Actually, mild to moderately depressed people have a far more accurate view of the world than happy ones.
Which would be understandable given the current state of the world. But like every other theory and or "study" discussed here this one is open for debate.
But allow me to introduce the fact that studies have shown the Conservatives are not only happier than Liberals they're also physically stronger.
$1:
The jury may be out on whether conservatives are less intelligent than liberals, but there's evidence that they may be physically stronger. Last year, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a fascinating paper by Aaron Sell, John Tooby and Leda Cosmides of the Center for Evolutionary Psychology at the University of California at Santa Barbara. The authors measured the strength of 343 students using weight-lifting machines at a gym. The participating students completed questionnaires designed to measure, among other things, their proneness to anger, their history of fighting and their fondness for aggression as a way to solve both individual and geopolitical problems.
Sell, Tooby and Cosmides found that men (but not women) with the most physical strength were the most likely to feel entitled to good treatment, anger easily, view themselves as successful in winning conflicts and believe in physical force as a tool for resolving interpersonal and international conflicts. Women who thought of themselves as pretty showed the same pattern of greater aggression. All of which means that if you are a liberal who believes you're smarter than conservatives, you probably shouldn't bring that up around them. You might not like them when they're angry.
Sell, Tooby and Cosmides found that men (but not women) with the most physical strength were the most likely to feel entitled to good treatment, anger easily, view themselves as successful in winning conflicts and believe in physical force as a tool for resolving interpersonal and international conflicts. Women who thought of themselves as pretty showed the same pattern of greater aggression. All of which means that if you are a liberal who believes you're smarter than conservatives, you probably shouldn't bring that up around them. You might not like them when they're angry.
http://content.time.com/time/health/art ... 42,00.html
Given this latest revelation, I guess it would explain why some people spent so much time stuffed in their lockers in High School while others excelled in sports and picking up cheerleaders.
![[huh]](./images/smilies/icon_scratch.gif "huh?"){kind=icon}
So here's to happy, physically aggressive Conservatives and angst ridden, depressed overly intelligent Liberals because, given the millennia we've been on the planet this must be the way nature intended our society to work.
Zipperfish @ Wed Aug 20, 2014 7:11 am
Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
So here's to happy, physically aggressive Conservatives and angst ridden, depressed overly intelligent Liberals because, given the millennia we've been on the planet this must be the way nature intended our society to work.
Exactly. Fundamental game theory. Neither a society of all liberals or all conservatives (or in game theory parlance doves and hawks) will work. Each needs the other.
raydan @ Wed Aug 20, 2014 2:02 pm
Zipperfish Zipperfish:
Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
So here's to happy, physically aggressive Conservatives and angst ridden, depressed overly intelligent Liberals because, given the millennia we've been on the planet this must be the way nature intended our society to work.
Exactly. Fundamental game theory. Neither a society of all liberals or all conservatives (or in game theory parlance doves and hawks) will work. Each needs the other.
Agreed!
![[B-o]](./images/smilies/drinkup.gif "Drink up")
Jabberwalker @ Wed Aug 20, 2014 5:27 pm
S'truth. Pessimists tend to be realists.
PluggyRug @ Wed Aug 20, 2014 6:52 pm
Jeez I feel so depressed thinking I might be a pessimist.
Jabberwalker @ Wed Aug 20, 2014 7:04 pm
Careful! You might disappear right up your own asshole, Eyeore!
Jabberwalker @ Tue Aug 26, 2014 5:02 pm
"It was all a merry mix-up", says burglar ... er curious guy. He says he broke into .... er ... "entered" the wrong house and that he meant to "enter" next door without knocking, instead.
All is forgiven!
No charges are laid!
What a good hearted guy that Justin is!
You don't suppose that Sophie's has a bit of rough on the side, do you?