http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=organization-and-political-leanings
Obviously, they’re implying that right-wing folks are the over-organized and All-American folk, while liberals are supposedly open-minded and eclectic. Hardly the first people to draw an association between political party and personality. *eye-roll* Not sure how this is even scientific.
There’s too much overlap, people who fit a mix of qualities characterized by these two extremes. Most people, as I learned in Psychology 101, lie in the middle on a continuum for the Big 5 personality traits.
I like to keep things organized and have a shameless affinity for calendars. Yet, I love art, music, and other forms of self-expression as much as any other leftie hipster does. I suppose that reflects my political moderateness (economic conservative, social liberal…I know this is a false ideal that does not exist in the real world…whatever). But I imagine this mix of personal qualities can be found in even the extremes of the political continuum.
