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Title: Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals, Say Scientists
Source:
Wired
URL Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/fearmongering-h/
Published: Sep 18, 2008
Author: Brandon Keim
Post Date: 2011-06-24 11:15:40 by lucysmom
Keywords: Fearmongering for Profit
Views: 15382
Comments: 28
Deep-seated political differences aren’t simply moral and intellectual: They’re also biological. In reflex tests of 46 political partisans, psychologists found that conservatives were more likely than liberals to be shocked by sudden threats. Accompanying the physiological differences were deep differences on hot-button political issues: military expansion, the Iraq war, gun control, capital punishment, the Patriot act, warrantless searches, foreign aid, abortion rights, gay marriage, premarital sex and pornography. "People are experiencing the world, experiencing threat, differently," said University of Nebraska political scientist John Hibbing. "We have very different physiological orientations."
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#1. To: Badeye, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, Capitalist Eric, Mininggold (#0)
snip Of course, ethics tend to be forgotten during election seasons — but fear-mongering may be counterproductive. snip Darren Schreiber, a University of California, San Diego political psychologist, contends that a candidate "who merely tries to trigger fear simply can’t be successful in the long run. Joe McCarthy had his run, but now his name is synonymous with a vile form of politics." "Real" conservatives will never figure out that they are being exploited.
Global warming/cooling/whatever, racists under the bed, greedy corporations, the pain of having to make a decision without gov regulation. These are the things that libs fear. Don't let any of these things pollute your beautiful mind, the government will provide all.
Without laws to break, no one's a criminal.
How could you ever decide whose neck to put your jackboot on?
Dude. Seriously. She's a LOON. Next time you get over near Riverside, you need to look me up.
LOL Are you back in California? I thought you said nothing could ever make you return.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestThe Bush administration has been accused of exploiting fears, though it’s hardly a new approach.
#19. To: lucysmom (#1)
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"The whole aim of practical politics," wrote journalist gadfly H.L. Mencken, "is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins."
#20. To: hondo68 (#19)
Global warming/cooling/whatever, racists under the bed, greedy corporations, the pain of having to make a decision without gov regulation.
#21. To: lucysmom (#20)
Without laws to break, no one's a criminal.
#22. To: hondo68 (#21)
#26. To: Capitalist Eric (#22)
Next time you get over near Riverside, you need to look me up.
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