A small but intriguing study finds that liberals and conservatives react differently when shown threatening images.
For comparison, the subjects were also shown three nonthreatening pictures
Alford and his colleagues then correlated this with their political survey results.
the study found that greater sensitivity to the images was linked to more fervent support for a conservative agenda—including opposition to immigration, gun control, gay marriage, abortion rights and pacifism, and support for military spending, warrantless searches, the
Iraq War, school prayer and the truth of the Bible.
were less sensitive to the threatening images, and more likely to support open immigration policies, pacifism and gun control. But according to the research, that's hardly desirable, since it suggests that liberals may display mammal-on-a-hot-rock languor in the face of legitimate threats.
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