Recently I have stumbled upon several studies that seem to suggest that (at least in the US) #conservatives are happier and healthier than #liberals, that they are more tolerant of different points of view, and that they understand the ideas of their adversaries better than they are understood.
👇 Putting it all here, plus some comments where I think results may be biased or distorted.
① #Marriage and family life:
> _“**Conservatives are more likely than liberals to be happily married**, simply because they're more likely to be married in the first place. […] Ideology predicts marital status among Americans about as well as income or education.”_
— https://ifstudies.org/blog/more-than-money-the-liberal-conservative-divide-in-marriage/
Possible flaw: I suspect age correlates with both probability of being married and with probability of leaning right, so when you look at who's married _today_, some of those (happily) married who declare to be conservatives would have been singles who identified as liberals two or three decades earlier. In other words: perhaps it's not that being a liberal makes you less likely to marry, but that being married and having children moves you closer to conservatism!
② Mental #health:
> _“**White (and especially ‘very’) liberals are far more likely than all other ideological-racial subgroups to report being diagnosed with a mental health condition**.”_
— https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1248823825317363714
Possible flaw: [“it's possible that the disparities in self-reported diagnosis are simply or partly a function of white liberals being more likely to seek mental health evaluations”](https://twitter.com/ZachG932/status/1248826478432858112).
