Imagine taking a sip from your drink, only to realize that it belongs to a stranger. Grossed out? If so, then you may be a conservative thinker.
High “disgust sensitivity,” or a tendency to react strongly to things you think are gross, can predict political conservatism, researchers say. Less turned off? That could indicate more liberal views.
Two recent studies link disgust sensitivity with conservative attitudes on gay marriage and abortion. In one, 181 participants were tested for how they’d react to unpleasant situations, such as finding an unflushed toilet in a public restroom. Then they were asked about their political leanings. Researchers found a correlation between being easily disgusted and politically conservative.
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Because disgust is a reaction to perceived impurity, he says, it might inform conservative values such as opposing homosexuality, gay marriage and abortion.
Please, stop already with the gay – comma- pedophile cliche. The FBI will tell you the stats indicate the VAST majority of pedophiles are heterosexual men targeting young girls. This blog never got into hating on its gay and lesbian readers before. What the hell is going on lately?
#1 – I love lesbians! I just never looked at another guys hairy ass and thought, “wow, I have to have some of that!”
Conservatives have a standerd of morality so therefore there is the ability to fail. Liberals have almost no morality so therefore they are less likely to fail.
Imagine taking a sip from your drink, only to realize that it belongs to a stranger. Grossed out? If so, then you may be a conservative thinker.
I think this may be true. I have done this and didn’t get grossed out. And I am not a rupuke.
#1
Stands to reason that there are more heterosexual ones as there are more heterosexuals in the general population.
I know logic escapes the simple minds of the fearful.
I am disgusted by poor living conditions, famine, lack of clean drinking water, lack of education, poverty, the ravages of war, mass murder, illegal detention and the use of torture.
Does that mean I am a conservative? If so then Dick Cheney is one of the most left wing liberals ever known!
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#3 Ah yes, the old “libruls have no morals” cliche. Then why do the “red” states consistently have higher levels of teen pregnancy, sex crimes, divorce, spouse abuse, etc., etc.?
Conservatives spend all their time yammering about morality, and failing to meet their own moral standards.
Liberals just live a moral life without constantly talking about it.
But this isn’t the only study to find this.
http://latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-sci-politics10sep10,0,2687256.story
Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work.
In a simple experiment reported today in the journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists at New York University and UCLA show that political orientation is related to differences in how the brain processes information.
Previous psychological studies have found that conservatives tend to be more structured and persistent in their judgments whereas liberals are more open to new experiences. The latest study found those traits are not confined to political situations but also influence everyday decisions.
Here’s another long but interesting article about differences.
http://psychologytoday.com/articles/200612/the-ideological-animal
“All people are born alike—except Republicans and Democrats,” quipped Groucho Marx, and in fact it turns out that personality differences between liberals and conservatives are evident in early childhood. In 1969, Berkeley professors Jack and Jeanne Block embarked on a study of childhood personality, asking nursery school teachers to rate children’s temperaments. They weren’t even thinking about political orientation.
Twenty years later, they decided to compare the subjects’ childhood personalities with their political preferences as adults. They found arresting patterns. As kids, liberals had developed close relationships with peers and were rated by their teachers as self-reliant, energetic, impulsive, and resilient. People who were conservative at age 23 had been described by their teachers as easily victimized, easily offended, indecisive, fearful, rigid, inhibited, and vulnerable at age 3. The reason for the difference, the Blocks hypothesized, was that insecure kids most needed the reassurance of tradition and authority, and they found it in conservative politics.
Liberals and consevatives definitely are psychologically different, we have known this for a long time.
The primary trait is what Piaget calls “egocentrism” which everyone has to a certain extent, especially when we are age 2 to 4. People that keep that egocentrism into adulthood tend to be conservative, people that grow out of it tend to be liberal.
#5 I know logic escapes the simple minds of the fearful.
Absolutely right… which is why the Cheney administration was constantly fearmongering. A fearful populace is easier to manipulate.
@6 More of a joke then a serous discussion. I didn’t know liberals were so inept at understanding a joke.
@8 Chaney never had an administration. You don’t sound clever just dumb.
#9 More of a serious discussion than you think. But it’s all that yucky science stuff that confuses wingnuts. So don’t worry your little head about it.
#1: You have no reading comprehension ability.
First, we don’t hate gays, etc. We hate those who hate them.
Second, yes, you’re right about the pedophile isn’t gay thing, generally. But that’s irrelevant to what the comment was about.
Try reading what’s written rather than reading what you want into it.
This explains why suburbs are sterile.
So many conservative politicians, priests, etc have been outed as gay, pedophiles, politicians and other ‘disgusting’ things for this to be true.
Just because you are one of those things doesn’t mean you don’t find it disgusting. For example, why would they hide their homosexuality if they weren’t in some way disgusted by it?
#1 – The author was in no way comparing pedophilia to homosexuality or suggesting a link between the two.
In regards to the results of this ‘study’, as a gay man I am quite disgusted by an unflushed toilet… yet I’m still pretty darn liberal.
conservatives are only disgusted by liberal policies.
this whole article is partisan BS
Uncle Dave opines: “This is BS. So many conservative politicians, priests, etc have been outed as gay, pedophiles, politicians and other ‘disgusting’ things for this to be true.” /// Made me laugh. Then I thought by definition anything someone does, at least after a few times, is considered normal, natural, and healthy unless there is a big dose of self loathing going on, a different psychological issue. So “actually” a deeper issue might be: “Why do conservatives get such a thrill out of being a hyprocrit and a poser?” And EVEN deeper==and how to they appeal to so many voters????
Saw last night Rachael Maddow’s continuing coverage on that Republican Religious Cult (the Family?). All that appeal to god and self appointed worthiness. EVEN DEEPER—how stupid, hypocritical, self loathing,and republican do you have to be to believe in THAT shit?
#7-ArianeB-Liberals and conservatives definitely are psychologically different, we have known this for a long time.
The difference between conservatives and liberals is conservatives had parents or the equivalent teach them right from wrong.
Liberals where allowed to run though grocery stores breaking things while the parents only said, “That’s OK junior we don’t have to pay for it. Let the rich evil grocer worry about it.”
“And the priests in black gowns,
Were making their rounds,
And binding in briars,
My joys and desires.”
Every parent teaches right from wrong. By default, by their actions if not by pure catechism. WHAT is taught as right and wrong differs widely.
Dr Doodypants fer instance was taught to weigh his shit before flushing, but not before posting. Liberals, just the other way around.
#13 …why would hide their homosexuality if they weren’t in some way disgusted by it?
I was thinking it had to do more with personal safety, harassment and job preservation. Ya think that might be a factor?
#19, Dallas,
Well, that explains conservative nose picking in public.
The first thing to remember is there are few hard and fast rules with human psychology. Generally they are tendencies.
Such as if you have shit for brains, it is very probable you are conservative. Not guaranteed, but very probable. There is also the possibility you’re just brain dead and waiting to have your organs harvested.
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You need to show this to Cherman.
#17 The difference between conservatives and liberals is conservatives had parents or the equivalent teach them right from wrong.
Liberals where allowed to run though grocery stores breaking things while the parents only said, “That’s OK junior we don’t have to pay for it. Let the rich evil grocer worry about it.”
Close. Conservatives teach their children how important it is to tell the world how moral you are, all the while doing whatever sleazy thing you want on the down low. It’s important to a conservative to appear moral, and lecture everyone else about their failings while not following your own advice. The classic example being the right-wing dad, puffing on his cigarette and sucking on his beer, lecturing his son about the evils of drugs.
#23-Phydeau
You continue to amaze me at how little you know about… anything.
Do you ever get out of your basement or has your mom got you handcuffed to a radiator? Click three times if you are being held against your will.
I could tell that one hurt, Dodd. The truth hurts, doesn’t it? Maybe if all the red states stopped telling everyone how moral they are, they could work on their higher rates of teenage pregnancy, sexual abuse, divorce, spouse abuse, et cetera, et cetera. Us liberals in the blue states are doing better, maybe y’all could take lessons from us. 😉
#23, Phydeau,
The classic example being the right-wing dad, puffing on his cigarette and sucking on his beer, lecturing his son about the evils of drugs.
I think you touched a nerve there with #24, Dr. Dudd.
#25-Phydeau-I could tell that one hurt…
Yeah, that’s it.
I’m amused by your outward loathing of morality. I suppose we should do away with that anchor around the neck so you can do what you want without consequences.
Yes, you’re a beacon to the future!
I just love the way each side tries to define what the other side is. Conservative say liberals are this way and liberals say conservative are that way.
I don’t think any of you know what the hell you’re talking about!
You continue to amaze me at how little you know about… anything.
Yes because your analysis of liberal parents was so insightful and well informed…
I was thinking it had to do more with personal safety, harassment and job preservation. Ya think that might be a factor?
My post was not meant to indicate that all homosexuals who are not open about their sexuality do so because of disgust. Rather it was meant to indicate that the existence of prominent conservatives being caught in gay sex scandals is an automatic refutation of the findings of the article.
I’ve come to the conclusion we’ll never settle anything around here. You would think we were Congress.