ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2012
The political left rolls with the good and the political right confronts the bad: connecting physiology and cognition to preferences.
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- Dispositional Fear and Political Attitudes.Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Conservatives and liberals have similar physiological responses to threats.Nature human behaviour · 2020Article
- Factors Predicting Willingness to Share COVID-19 Misinformation.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
We report evidence that individual-level variation in people's physiological and attentional responses to aversive and appetitive stimuli are correlated with broad political orientations. Specifically, we find that greater orientation to aversive stimuli tends to be associated with right-of-centre and greater orientation to appetitive (pleasing) stimuli with left-of-centre political inclinations. These findings are consistent with recent evidence that political views are connected to physiological predispositions but are unique in incorporating findings on variation in directed attention that make it possible to understand additional aspects of the link between the physiological and the political.
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