Posted on 12/09/2010 5:30:10 PM PST by EveningStar
Politics and Eye Movement: Liberals Focus Their Attention on 'Gaze Cues' Much Differently Than Conservatives Do
It goes without saying that conservatives and liberals don't see the world in the same way. Now, research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that is exactly, and quite literally, the case.
In a new study, UNL researchers measured both liberals' and conservatives' reaction to "gaze cues" -- a person's tendency to shift attention in a direction consistent with another person's eye movements, even if it's irrelevant to their current task -- and found big differences between the two groups.
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Well, it is one way to spot a liberal - shifty eyes.
True, the visual gives clues to our ideology. I know for me, I just can’t see being a Liberl Progressive marxist Fascist Secularist.
Makes sense. Liberals are easily manipulated, conservatives are independent thinkers.
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Conservatives (at a secular level) are stubborn codgers. Not all who “think for themselves” will end up thinking the same thing.
So where to go with this info? Can those who are easily manipulated be manipulated with the truth? Doesn’t seem to me that liberals listen at all! They must be visual learners because they didn’t LISTEN to the instructions that were given but only followed what they SAW. They vote for what they see as a good speaker, smiles, smiles, smiles, not listening to what is being said. Just my opinion. :)
Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve always thought that hard lefties have a certain kind of dead eye look to them. Something in the soul, I suppose. The women look hard and worn and the men look weak. I’ve seen the look and found the ideology later many, many times. Weird, but generally true in my experience.
Must be why they all develop that eyes bugged out looney look. It happens to all of them the more BS they spout over the years.
Some years back Kirsten Powers used to be pretty and normal looking. Over time she has developed that bug eyed look.
The faces in the study were images on a computer screen. I wonder what the results would be like if they were looking at real people instead of a computer screen.
It could be that liberals can’t tell the difference between real and fake people, and conservatives can. In that case, there would be no difference between liberals and conservatives in doing the same experiment, but with real people looking off in some random direction.
That would suggest a lot about liberals’ grasp on reality.
So now we have the scientific evidence: Liberals are sheep.
I think I see kind of the same thing. When I see pictures of Dennis Kucinich, for example, I see no soul in the eyes. Not every liberal looks soulless, just some of them.
I voluntarily participate in an Internet board that focuses on survival preparation strategies. A recent poll of the personality types of the participants found around 80% to be of one personality type. The interesting thing about this was that it was the most rare of personality types. Most of these participants are of a conservative bent. So I think personality (whether nature or nurture inspired) may also have an influence on ones political tendencies. The study may have captured one facet of that. It would be interesting to me if a survey could be done to determine whether one or more personality types occurred in conservatives greater than in the population as a whole.
This study strikes me as “dumb”, and at best, directed towards matching an observed behavior to any other behavior in humans, such as, which group is most likely to like apple pie.
They could just as easily have tried to show that, the shifting of the eyes or the fixed eyes, might be indications of who is more susceptible to the “wandering eye” syndrome in male humans. Or, they could’ve tried to match the study with who is most likely to develop dry eyes in the later years.
What they had in their minds was a behavior that they needed to show as proof of other tendencies.
Now, aren’t there many of us who are former democrats/liberals? Wouldn’t we be a match for being a shifty liberal or a hard-set in his ways conservative? Or, would we be in the group that shifted one eye while keeping the other one fixed?
I hope I did not pay for this study.
easliy manipulated and led astray. Yep sounds like liberals.
20 minutes later he still hadn't looked me in the eye.... (I framed my answers for him...lol)
20 minutes later he still hadn't looked me in the eye.... (I framed my answers for him...lol)
I’ve always thought I was born conservative
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