"A new psychological study has found that people who report favorable views of Donald Trump also tend to score higher on measures of callousness, manipulation, and other malevolent traits—and lower on empathy and compassion. The findings, based on two large surveys of U.S. adults, shed light on how personality traits relate to political beliefs, including support for Trump and conservative ideology."

~ Eric W. Dolan

#Trump #authoritarianism #empathy #psychopathy
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https://www.psypost.org/trump-supporters-report-higher-levels-of-psychopathy-manipulativeness-callousness-and-narcissism/

Trump supporters report higher levels of psychopathy, manipulativeness, callousness, and narcissism

Support for Donald Trump is linked to darker personality traits, including increased psychopathy and decreased empathy, new research finds. The study also connects conservative political beliefs to lower benevolence, suggesting personality may shape how people engage with politics and ideology.

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@wdlindsy this is kinda like when scientists had to confirm the existence of the clit....
@foundseed Some things just stand out as self-evidently obvious and true, right?
@wdlindsy and yet, someone still needs some guy in a lab coat to say it into a microphone
@foundseed Needs that male validation, right? So we've been long conditioned to think, many of us….
@wdlindsy the paternalism goes so deep that even lefty feminist types still refuse to take medicines or wisdom seriously if there isn't "empirical scientific data" about it