So, Conservatives not the psychotic ones, after all..

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(06-06-2019, 10:44 PM)Dill Wrote: Inadequate.  Two posters now have warned about doing what you are doing.

The relevant research term is "Eysenck's theory of psychoticism." Try this.
http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/porzio.html

Or this https://study.com/academy/lesson/hans-jurgen-eysenck-personality-theory-lesson-quiz.html

"Psychoticism" in this case a "trait"--a part of everyone's personality, but more dominant in some that others (like artists) and balanced by "socialization" in Eysenck's theory.  If you are interested, here is an overview of how Eysenck's theory fits into personality research since WWII.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886916302604

https://reason.com/2016/06/10/liberals-not-conservatives-express-more/

Reason summarized it quite well a few years back with the accurate use of all terms. 

They quote the study itself

Quote:Having a high Psychoticism score is not a diagnosis of being clinically psychotic or psychopathic. Rather, P is positively correlated with tough-mindedness, risk-taking, sensation-seeking, impulsivity, and authoritarianism (Adorno et al. 1950; Altemeyer 1996; Eysenck and Eysenck 1985, McCourt et al. 1999). In social situations, those who score high on P are more uncooperative, hostile, troublesome, and socially withdrawn, but lack feelings of inferiority and have an absence of anxiety. At the extremes, those scoring high on P are manipulative, tough-minded, and practical