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28 Sep 2008 01:51 pm
Are Social Conservatives More Afraid?
The Washington Independent fact checks an LA Times article on a study about biology and politics:
The study, released yesterday, tested the physiological responses of 46 participants to various threatening images, like bloody faces. It found that people who self-identified as “in favor of socially protective policies” responded much more strongly to the stimuli than people who held more liberal views on such issues as welfare, abortion, immigration, gay rights and school prayer.
The researchers concluded that people of different ideological
persuasions have divergent physiological reactions, and that people
with socially conservative views tend to be more shocked by potentially
threatening stimuli.
“Some people have said that we’re calling conservatives ‘frightened’ or
something along those lines,” Oxley said. “And we’re not. All we’re
suggesting is that there’s a physiological difference between people
who hold one set of political beliefs and people who hold another set
of political beliefs.”
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