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How you react to this photo reveals your political beliefs

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Indeed, watching the brain's reaction to a single disgusting image was sufficient to guess each subject's political orientation. Montague said in the press release, "I haven't seen such clean predictive results in any other functional imaging experiments in our lab or others." <snip>

How you react to this photo reveals your political beliefs - CBS News


 
Hmmm, according to the linked article, conservatives are more reactive to disgusting images. I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing.
 
I thought "that's one ugly motherfu..." Conservative? Perhaps.

Yet, not to completely stereotype women, but if it is true most women hate spiders and ugly things like this fella, does that make them conservative? Not easily, if we are lead to believe that they are more likely (depending on age, race, economic and relationship status) to be liberal.
 
How you react to this picture reveals your political bias too!

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Hmmm, according to the linked article, conservatives are more reactive to disgusting images. I'm not sure that's necessarily a bad thing.

Sooo.....Conservatives avoid the poo while liberals wallow around in it? I think I'm picking up what you're laying down!:lol:
 
Sooo.....Conservatives avoid the poo while liberals wallow around in it? I think I'm picking up what you're laying down!:lol:

Well, that wasn't exactly what my train of thought was, but I can see how one might take it that way. :lol:

What I was saying was that seems quite appropriate to me, to be repelled by disgusting images. I can't think of any reason I would want to NOT be disturbed by them.
 
Well, that wasn't exactly what my train of thought was, but I can see how one might take it that way. :lol:

What I was saying was that seems quite appropriate to me, to be repelled by disgusting images. I can't think of any reason I would want to NOT be disturbed by them.

I just get a kick out of all these studies that try to prove some physiological difference between liberals and conservatives. It's kind of silly but at some level it's also disturbing. I mean if you're searching for a "scientific" difference then what do you do when you find it?
 
I just get a kick out of all these studies that try to prove some physiological difference between liberals and conservatives. It's kind of silly but at some level it's also disturbing. I mean if you're searching for a "scientific" difference then what do you do when you find it?

You don't do anything. You just feel smug, and think that you can explain it. Nevermind that you can't do a freaking thing about it, nor use it to manipulate the "other" side into joining you. It's mostly just an ego thing.
 
my reaction : cool looking bug photo.
 
I just get a kick out of all these studies that try to prove some physiological difference between liberals and conservatives. It's kind of silly but at some level it's also disturbing. I mean if you're searching for a "scientific" difference then what do you do when you find it?

How much did Congress appropriate for this study ?
 
It is interesting. It seems to go against the general stereotype that liberals are more emotional and conservatives are more analytical. One can spin the results to make either conservatives or liberals look superior to the other. But the brain is fascinating.
 
So Conservatives are glass half-empty types. Who knew?
 
I thought "that's one ugly motherfu..." Conservative? Perhaps.

Yet, not to completely stereotype women, but if it is true most women hate spiders and ugly things like this fella, does that make them conservative? Not easily, if we are lead to believe that they are more likely (depending on age, race, economic and relationship status) to be liberal.

The article says there wasn't much difference in reported reactions. That it only showed up in the fMRI.

Much of persuasion science is based on this kind of quirk in our hardwiring.
 
I just get a kick out of all these studies that try to prove some physiological difference between liberals and conservatives. It's kind of silly but at some level it's also disturbing. I mean if you're searching for a "scientific" difference then what do you do when you find it?

Might help us find common ground if it turns out some of our differences are behavioral relics or whatever.
 
Great... I'm either very liberal or very desensitized. The latter seems more reasonable than the former.
 
Fear creates conservatives .
Understanding creates liberals.
 
My reaction was similar. I thought, "That's a bug." I guess I'm a liberal.

I'm going to start a study to show that the images scientists and journalists choose in studying and reporting on emotional responses to photos says something about the scientists and journalists personal phobias.
 
Fear creates conservatives .
Understanding creates liberals.

Don't look now, but the liberal base contains most of the 18 year olds and high school drop outs.

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