The DOI matches its Crossref record; 12 of the 12 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Conservatives are happier than liberals, but why? Political ideology, personality, and life satisfaction
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Ryan, R. M., & Deci, E. L. (2000) · American Psychologist · doi:10.1037//0003-066x.55.1.68 · Cited by 54,599
The satisfaction with life scale
Diener, E., Emmons, R. A., Larsen, R. J., & Griffin, S. (1985) · Journal of Personality Assessment · doi:10.1207/s15327752jpa4901_13 · Cited by 31,768
Scheier, M. F., Carver, C. S., & Bridges, M. W. (1994) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037//0022-3514.67.6.1063 · Cited by 7,456
Political conservatism as motivated social cognition.
Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. J. (2003) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.129.3.339 · Cited by 4,904 · cited 7×
“In Study 1, we observed a small but significant positive relationship between conservatism and both self-esteem and optimism; these are opposite in direction to the predicted relationships described by Jost et al. (2003).”
BackgroundResultInfluentialLiberals and conservatives rely on different sets of moral foundations.
Graham, J., Haidt, J., & Nosek, B. A. (2009) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/a0015141 · Cited by 4,560
Mechanisms of moral disengagement in the exercise of moral agency
Bandura, A., Barbaranelli, C., Caprara, G. V., & Pastorelli, C. (1996) · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology · doi:10.1037/0022-3514.71.2.364 · Cited by 2,680
Antecedents and Consequences of System-Justifying Ideologies
Jost, J. T., & Hunyady, O. (2005) · Current Directions in Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/j.0963-7214.2005.00377.x · Cited by 1,063
Morality: An Evolutionary Account
Krebs, D. L. (2008) · Perspectives on Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/j.1745-6924.2008.00072.x · Cited by 240
Integrity and Character: Implications of Principled and Expedient Ethical Ideologies
Schlenker, B. R. (2008) · Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology · doi:10.1521/jscp.2008.27.10.1078 · Cited by 184
Self-citationMisperceptions in Intergroup Conflict: Disagreeing About What We Disagree About
Chambers, J. R., Baron, R. S., & Inman, M. L. (2006) · Psychological Science · doi:10.1111/j.1467-9280.2005.01662.x · Cited by 155
Cited by
Ideological Asymmetries and the Essence of Political Psychology
Jost, J. T. (2017) · Political Psychology · doi:10.1111/pops.12407 · Cited by 696
Jost, J. T. (2019) · British Journal of Social Psychology · doi:10.1111/bjso.12297 · Cited by 567
Ellemers, N., van der Toorn, J., Paunov, Y., & van Leeuwen, T. (2019) · Personality and Social Psychology Review · doi:10.1177/1088868318811759 · Cited by 394
Toner, K., Leary, M. R., Asher, M. W., & Jongman-Sereno, K. P. (2013) · Psychological Science · doi:10.1177/0956797613494848 · Cited by 141
Generational Differences in Work Ethic: Fact or Fiction?
Zabel, K. L., Biermeier-Hanson, B. B. J., Baltes, B. B., Early, B. J., & Shepard, A. (2017) · Journal of Business and Psychology · doi:10.1007/s10869-016-9466-5 · Cited by 101
Metadata
- Authors
- Schlenker, B. R., Chambers, J. R., & Le, B. M.
- Venue
- Journal of Research in Personality
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2012-04
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 127-146
- ISSN
- 0092-6566 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2066787144
- Cited by
- 237
- References
- 12
- FWCI
- 12.23
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Conservatives are happier than liberals, but why? Political ideology, personality, and life satisfaction. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1016/j.jrp.2011.12.009
- The paper
- Schlenker, B. R., Chambers, J. R., & Le, B. M. (2012). Conservatives are happier than liberals, but why? Political ideology, personality, and life satisfaction. Journal of Research in Personality. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2011.12.009
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
