Progressives claim their opponents just don’t care about people.
More than five decades of social psychological data have demonstrated that conservatives report greater levels of happiness and emotional health than liberals. All of this has been so well documented that, for the most part, modern social scientists have given up trying to dismiss the data and have instead tried to explain why.
Some researchers have suggested that conservatives simply tend to provide responses on surveys that are more socially desirable. But the data dispute this. It is a simple statistical strategy to control for social desirability in analyzing the data, and most researchers know this.
