What's the Difference Between a Conservative and a Liberal?
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 - 11:35
in Mathematics & Economics
Political conservatives operate out of a fear of chaos and absence of order while political liberals operate out of a fear of emptiness, a new Northwestern University study soon to be published in the Journal of Research in Personality finds. read more
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