User:Viriditas/Psychology of libertarians

Studies show that libertarians experience morality differently than other people. While narrowly valuing individual liberty above all other types of morals, libertarians often identify as rational and unemotional and react to certain issues with less moral concern. A 2012 study of libertarian morality found that they were less empathic than both liberals and conservatives. For example, violence and suffering concerns liberals and conservatives more than it does libertarians. Libertarians also report less of a moral identification with their communities than other members. Because libertarians score low on empathy but high on systemizing tests, some researchers speculate that they have a "greater susceptibility to autism".