Some bloggers are annoyed at the “whiny kids grow up to be conservatives” …

Michelle Malkin managed to get her hands on the Block Study document which shows that whiny kids grow up to be conservative. (I discussed the newspaper coverage of the study here.) The study contains this paragraph about the sample set….

Here’s something worth whining about! A new “scientific” (that word again) study shows that whiny, complaining children grow up to be conservative, while children described as “confident, resilient, self-reliant” grew up to be liberals:The study from t…

A Pew research poll found that people who identified themselves as Republicans are happier than people who identified themselves as Liberal Democrats. Not Democrats or Moderates, Liberal Democrats The survey of more than 3,000 adults found that 47 perc…

The results of a long-term study of nursery school children in Berkeley, California have recently been released and the findings may surprise you. Researchers Jack and Jeanne Block spent over twenty years studying the personality traits of Berkeley pre…

Whiny Kids Become Conservatives

Politicized psychology, you have to love it.

A study in the Journal of Research Into Personality suggests that whiny children tend to grow up to be conservatives, while self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals. This means that at some point we all go through personality…

Michelle has kindly posted the infamous “whiny kids grow up to be conservative” paper in PDF format. Would you believe that the paper claims that conservative boys were “visibly deviant?” Yes, it does. Click here to download and…

A Berkley University “professor” has released a “study” that claims that children who are insecure and whiners grow up to be conservative, while those who are well adjusted and well balanced grow up to be liberals. The findings have been published i…

The Left is in full chortle at the expense of conservatives after results of a long-term study of children in Berkeley, California were revealed in this Toronto Star article:

How to spot a baby conservative
Whiny children, claims a new study, tend …

This study showing that whiny kids grow up to be conservative brought to you by the uber-liberal Toronto Star and some professors at UC Berkley. So, you know, no agenda there or anything. Update: Download the full 16 page research…

This study concludes whiny tattle-tale kids turn out to be conservatives and confident, self-reliant kids turn out to be liberals. I see one small problem with the study – maybe you’ll agree: It used 95 kids from Berkeley, CA. If…

“I often think it’s comical / How Nature always does contrive / That every boy and every gal, / That’s born into the world alive . . .
. . . Is either a little Liberal, / Or else a little Conservative!” –W.S. Gilbert (Ruddigore? Music Mavens?)

I assume that y’all have heard about the study from Berkley which claims that whiney children grow up to be conservatives? Well – Michelle Malkin provides us with this very fine quote from a reader: It would seem that

There’s been discussion today about a study associating whiny kids becoming conservatives as adults. You can see the summary of it at Michelle Malkin’s site, both here and here. I won’t bore you with the details, she does a great