Why, I manage not to sleep with prostitutes even though I probably wouldn’t be caught, fired, and/or called a hypocrite for it. Of course, I don’t have $9000 to blow on a night, so I’d have to settle for a medium-class call girl, so that might be it.

This is an interesting point. What’s the connection between being conservative and being dispositionist? Is it that conservatives tend to be more pessimistic about human nature, and so are more likely to chalk up faults to innate traits? Or is it because they are more punitive, and therefore would rather not admit evidence of external influences on behavior which might mitigate culpability? Or is it that in being more hierarchical, conservatives are happier to have clear winners and losers based on dispositional characteristics? Or is it because they’re less open to new experience, and therefore less likely to accept recently developed situationist analyses that challenge the old dispositionist myths? Just a few off the cuff and likely ill-formed hypotheses, so I’d love to get or be pointed to some expert opinion on this. Thanks as always to the Situationist crew.