Easily grossed out? You're more likely a conservative, study says (Cornell U.)

Cornell Chronicle ^ | June 3, 2009 | By Lauren Gold

[Miss Marple]

I see the steady march towards labeling conservatism a mental disorder or a genetic defect proceeds apace.

[Don Corleone]

Far above Cayugas Waters

There she stands Cornell

That smell is not Cayugas waters

That smell is Cornell.

Rah Rah Rah!

[Behind Liberal Lines]

I see the steady march towards labeling conservatism a mental disorder or a genetic defect proceeds apace.

Yeah, this is just the natural progression of twenty years of political correctness.

[presidio9]

[kidd]

Perhaps in the next study, they could see how liberals/conservatives react to the following:

steaks cooked rare
radioactivity
aborted fetuses
deer hunting
putting panties on the heads of terrorists

[reagan_fanatic]

I guess I do get grossed out kind of easily

[RichInOC]

Ah, yes, the Whoopster...or as they referred to her back when she was Mrs. Ted Danson, proof positive that white men can’t see.

[a fool in paradise]

Do crawly insects make you cringe or dead bodies make you blanch?

Remind which group it is that supports submerging a crucifix in a jar of urine in the name of art on the public dollar yet cannot tolerate or stomach seeing photos of aborted fetal "tissue".

[a fool in paradise]

Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness...? If so, chances are you're more conservative -- politically, and especially in your attitudes toward gays and lesbians...

Ugh, thanks for the "imagery".

[bdeaner]

These researchers are idiots. They assume disgust is the independent (causal) variable, but this is a correlational study. CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION!!!

It could be, on the contrary, that those who have an ethical value system, and strong moral judgments, are more likely to experience disgust.

Disgust is an emotion that is about the rejection of something -- whether a thing or an idea. If you have no morals, of course you will be less disgusted by things. After all, you don't reject any ideas. But if you have strong morals, you will be more likely to be disgusted -- you will reject more ideas, because you have a moral system that allows you to manage which ideas are acceptable and which are not.

So, it is more likely that objective morality (acknowledged by conservatives) leads to higher disgust sensitivity, and not vice versa.

I have not read the study, but if these researchers fail to acknowledge this obvious, alternative scenario, they are morons. But the obvious reality is that they have a leftist agenda with this research, and they could give a crap about the truth of what they are studying.

[bdeaner]

[bdeaner]

[SparkyBass]

All we are saying, is give SOAP a chance!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Here's my test:

[RebelTXRose]

Your mention of how your sister in law would react in having to clean up the mess in the movies - reminds me of a very sad time when a friend from church helped clean up the back yard after another friend had committed suicide. Real reality.

Adults DO what adults HAVE to do. Liberals cry about it. Yep, I’m saying they are brats!

[gwilhelm56]

OK ... they win!!!

someone owes me a Keyboard!!

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Leftists definitely gross me out.

[muawiyah]

What an idea for Halloween. We did a watermelon this last year ~ lit it up inside with a battery powered LED. Had people stop their cars to come take a look at it.

But this? Just never thought of it, but I have now!

[bdeaner]

What an idea for Halloween.

Definitely! People will get a kick of it.

Get another pumpkin and make it into Obama, and put a teleprompter in front of it. Then, have the second pumpkin watching him and barfing. LOL.

[Dumb_Ox]

So is decency-killing porn making more people into liberals?