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The Psychological Allure of Hating Political Correctness

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday August 19 2015, @04:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the tell-it-like-it-is dept.

hubie writes:

Melanie Tannenbaum has written several interesting blog posts about ambiguity intolerance and its connection to the early popular support Donald Trump is currently enjoying. Roughly speaking, people who are not comfortable without a plan of action or a path forward are said to have more ambiguity intolerance.

What may be surprising, however, is the research showing that people high in ambiguity intolerance feel so profoundly uncomfortable with the idea of uncertainty, they will often prefer a slightly negative yet certain outcome to a potentially-more-positive, uncertain one. In other words, people may find Donald Trump to be disagreeable, abrasive, or downright unlikeable. But because of his reputation for "telling it like it is" and "being honest to a fault," they also feel certain that they can believe Trump when he says he's telling the truth.

Tannenbaum points out that despite a record of Trump making contradictory comments in the past, people tend to believe his convictions on what he says because nobody would say those "non-normative" things if they really didn't believe it.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2015, @04:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2015, @04:32AM (#224792)

    I don't read shit that contains the phrases "plan of action" and "path forward" so fuck you.

  • (Score: 2) by BasilBrush on Wednesday August 19 2015, @09:18AM

    by BasilBrush (3994) on Wednesday August 19 2015, @09:18AM (#224894)

    All right, Donald, calm down.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2015, @09:27AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2015, @09:27AM (#224896)
      I'll trump you, bitch, dontcha evah tell me to calm down.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2015, @11:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2015, @11:53AM (#224929)

    That's because you have a lot of ambiguity intolerance, grandpa.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2015, @12:44PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 19 2015, @12:44PM (#224939)

      And you have a vacuum between your ears, punk.

      • (Score: 2) by DECbot on Wednesday August 19 2015, @02:52PM

        by DECbot (832) on Wednesday August 19 2015, @02:52PM (#225015) Journal

        According to this article, I'd prefer a vacuum between his ears than indeterminable quantity of fuzzy, illogical, inefficient low density gray matter.

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  • (Score: 2) by vux984 on Wednesday August 19 2015, @08:17PM

    by vux984 (5045) on Wednesday August 19 2015, @08:17PM (#225161)

    "I was elected to LEAD not to READ"!