Scientists Are Beginning to Figure Out Why Conservatives Are…Conservative

Scientists are using eye-tracking devices to detect automatic response differences between liberals and conservatives. University of Nebraska-Lincoln

You could be forgiven for not having browsed yet through the latest issue of the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences. If you care about politics, though, you’ll find a punchline therein that is pretty extraordinary.

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Scientists Are Beginning to Figure Out Why Conservatives Are…Conservative

Maybe its chemical related

maybe its genetic

maybe its both genetic and chemical related

CrazyNeutrino said:

Maybe its chemical related

maybe its genetic

maybe its both genetic and chemical related

I wonder if there is a way to measure negativity on the internet to locate the most conservative websites?

The kind of negativity talked about in the article

and Vice versa, find the most radical websites by their positive measurement?

theres a scene in “mars attacks” where the scientist assures everyone that the martians don’t mean any harm

the martians go nuts blowing people away and the scientist then explains away why they blew people away and they give them another chance in france

pseudo scientific mumbo jumbo I’m afraid

wookiemeister said:

pseudo scientific mumbo jumbo I’m afraid

dont be afraid Wookie

its only chemistry

“ A large body of political scientists and political psychologists now concur that liberals and conservatives disagree about politics in part because they are different people at the level of personality, psychology, and even traits like physiology and genetics.

That’s a big deal. It challenges everything that we thought we knew about politics—upending the idea that we get our beliefs solely from our upbringing, from our friends and families, from our personal economic interests, and calling into question the notion that in politics, we can really change (most of us, anyway).”

Do some people really think that?

I mean why wouldn’t your degree of empathy (for instance) affect your politics?

The Rev Dodgson said:

“ A large body of political scientists and political psychologists now concur that liberals and conservatives disagree about politics in part because they are different people at the level of personality, psychology, and even traits like physiology and genetics.

That’s a big deal. It challenges everything that we thought we knew about politics—upending the idea that we get our beliefs solely from our upbringing, from our friends and families, from our personal economic interests, and calling into question the notion that in politics, we can really change (most of us, anyway).”

Do some people really think that?

I mean why wouldn’t your degree of empathy (for instance) affect your politics?

Think what?

Everyone has a different degree of understanding

What do you think of my emotion/chemistry theory Rev?

CrazyNeutrino said:

What do you think of my emotion/chemistry theory Rev?

there are 72 emotions expressed by the human body

Emotion

and the composition of the human body has around 60 chemicals +

Composition of the human body

I believe that most human emotions are caused by chemicals in the human body

and

Emotional intelligence

to be aware of and control your emotions is really the key to understanding your body

also it might be the key to unlocking the mysteries of psychology

in other words

psychologists should study human chemistry to help their understanding of human behavior

caused = expressed

>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/biology-ideology-john-hibbing-negativity-bias

Too bad if these differences were the product of culture/ideology, that two possibilities(the dichotomy) is an artifact of ideological socialization. A sort of polarization effect.