Conservatives are happier than liberals, but why? Political ideology, personality, and life satisfaction

By B. R. Schlenker, John R. Chambers, Bonnie M. Le. 2012

219 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/f499d9f0b60d3abe3c61124877532023631173b8

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In Clinical Psychology

1. John T. Jost

In Social Psychology

1. John T. Jost
2. Aaron C. Kay
3. H. Thórisdóttir
4. D. Bar-Tal
5. Eran Halperin
6. Jaime L. Napier
7. Chris G. Sibley
8. A. Ledgerwood

In Sociology and Political Science

1. John T. Jost
2. Aaron C. Kay
3. H. Thórisdóttir
4. D. Bar-Tal
5. Eran Halperin
6. Jaime L. Napier
7. Brian A. Nosek
8. Orsolya Hunyady

Citations in the corpus

• A quarter century of system justification theory: Questions, answers, criticisms, and societal applications (2018, background): “…between conservatism and life satisfaction, providing clear support for system justification theory, whereas other variables that were proposed as alternative explanations – such as number of groupmemberships (Jetten et al., 2012) and general optimism (Schlenker et al., 2012) – did not.”