Since I’m adverse to the negative, threatening, and disgusting Obama, I must be a conservative.
Basically, if you allow someone to put that contraption on your head, then you are a liberal..
The difference is between rationality and emotionalism. The “left” are a bunch of dewy-eyed shallow adolescents.
I read this on Mother Jones yesterday, plus comments.
Best comment was liberals must have a mental illness. Explains things the best (or have a demon to be more explicit).
Liberals think everything will naturally work out well if the right people are in charge (them), and don't much care for individual cases where their good intentions don't pan out.
Conservatives have a functioning sense of disgust and negative response. Liberals have to fake it because they don’t have a properly functioning brain. It’s why they are hypocrites about near everything. Republican is racially insensitive? It outrages and disgusts them. Liberal makes a joke about Indians running 7-11s and they laugh. A black mod beats a white man nearly to death? Ehh... these things happen. A hispanic man shoots a black teen who was beating him to death? Outrage!
If anything, the headline should be, “conservatives have a proper functioning brain while liberals have suppressed mental function.”
In developmental psychology it’s called “individuation.”
Put bluntly, conservatives are individuated, liberals are not.
And Leftists are reptiles.
This is an old Andy Rooney piece:
A lot of you probably aren’t sure whether you’re Republicans or Democrats. We have an election coming up shortly, and you ought to find out what you are. I thought it might help if I explained the difference between Republicans and Democrats.
Democrats believe the trouble started with Herbert Hoover, and was worse during the Presidency of Richard Nixon.
Republicans believe the trouble started with FDR, and is worse than ever right now.
Democrats leave the dishes in the drying rack on the sink overnight.
Republicans put the dishes away every night.
Republicans play tennis
Democrats bowl, unless they’re Kennedy Democrats, in which case they play tennis too.
Democrats love television, and watch a lot of it.
Republicans hate television. They watch a lot of it too.
Democrats are baseball fans.
Republicans follow college football.
Democrats buy their food on payday once a week at the supermarket
Republicans go to the grocery store everyday.
Democrats usually write with a pencil.
Republicans use pens.
In the summer, Democrats drink beer.
Republicans drink gin and tonic. In the winter, they drink scotch and soda.
Democrats drink beer.
Republicans think taxes are too high because of the Democrats.
Democrats think taxes are too high because of the Republicans.
Republicans have dinner between seven and eight.
Democrats have supper between five and six.
Democrats drink coffee with cream and sugar, from mugs.
Republicans take theirs black — with cup and saucer.
Democrats don’t seal the envelopes of their Christmas cards, which they sign by hand.
Republicans seal the envelopes of their Christmas cards, which have their names printed on them — unless they’re very rich Republicans, in which case they sign them by hand. If they’re very, very rich, they have someone else sign them.
Democrats believe people are basically good but must be saved from themselves by their government.
Republicans believe people are basically bad but they’ll be ok if they’re left alone.
A lot of Republicans are more like Democrats used to be, and a lot of Democrats are more like Republicans used to be. If you’re still not sure what you are, you’re probably a Democrat.
Exactly 180 degrees wrong. It is liberals who constantly see boogy men that an ever growing big daddy government has to protect us from.
The premise of this article and study runs directly counter to the repeated surveys that show conservatives are much happier, more contented, successful people. Unless, a realistic negativity is required to create such lives.
I do think there may be something to differing levels of emotional maturity, such that people tend to become more conservative with age—and such people probably are more turned off to the ‘gross outs’ that intrigue children and adolescents.
Conservative - “Watch out! That lion will eat you!”
Liberal - “But he looks so cuddly!”
If you watch a man attempt to better himself, but gets tripped up along the way, and you think, “That sucks”, you are a conservative.
If you are watching your neighbor becoming engaged in a profiting exercise of his natural talents and abilities, and is becoming successful, and you examine yourself, but make no changes, and scream to your neighbor, “What you are doing sucks!!” You are a liberal.
By “negativity bias” he means being disgusted by disgusting things. The diference he is measuring is due to the Holy Spirit.
“conservatives have a proper functioning brain while liberals have suppressed mental function.” sums it up
A much better and more accurate test, flash names like Barack Obama and George W Bush on a screen and observe the reactions.
What a pantload. The conclusions he draws reflect his own bias.
I agree with the basic premise, but with his conclusion. I know a lot of liberals and the difference between liberals and conservatives is not how they seem the world, but how they react to it. Conservatives are thinkers. When presented with an issue we looking at it in a logical way and determine our response accordingly. Liberals are emotion based. The don’t need or care about facts or hard data because the react to everything in a visceral why. That is why you can’t have a logical argument with a liberal because facts don’t matter. Its all about you feel. We have raised at least one generation of kids with this how does that make you feel mantra, and the vast majority of them are and always will be liberal.
It must measure brain waves. Lack of such waves and your Liberal.
Which is why Liberals try to personally destroy those who disagree with them, and crap on cop cars at Occupy rallies. Makes sense to me!
The article mentions the negativity of conservatives several times, and neglects to mention that liberals tend to not see a true threat.
One “reason” that socialism fails is the fact that there seems to be a lack of people willing to live as a socialist- there is no “socialist man”.
Hitler and Sanger dreamed of selective breeding a “master race”.
Do you see where this biometric technique can be a pathway to that goal, if, as the article states, political outlook can be genetic?