Topic: Secrets of the Right-Wing Brain: Conservatives See a Hostile World (Read 648 times)

Lethn

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The scientists themselves insist that “citing differences in the psychological and physiological traits of liberals and conservatives is not equivalent to declaring one ideology superior to the other.”

LOL! That is one patronising statement or incredibly naive, they completely underestimate the people who will use this study Tongue

newflesh

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Link:
http://www.alternet.org/secrets-right-wing-brain-new-study-proves-it-conservatives-see-hostile-world
Original paper:
http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FBBS%2FBBS37_03%2FS0140525X13001192a.pdf&code=983804d1169d665c08c095f29250a990

"It advances three successive waves of evidence, which combine to show that conservatives differ from liberals by having stronger, more intense reactions to negative aspects of the environment — such as physical threats, or potential sources of disease — which are ultimately physiological. At the same time, with multiple forms of mass hysteria going on at once, American conservatives seem dead set on proving the scientists right, and underscoring the importance of the work they’re doing".

The scientists themselves insist that “citing differences in the psychological and physiological traits of liberals and conservatives is not equivalent to declaring one ideology superior to the other.”

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