Quote (Black XistenZ @ Feb 12 2021 06:15am)
Got a source? I know that studies have shown conservatives to be more motivated than liberals by particular emotions, like fear, anger and disgust which you already mentioned. But the blanket statement that "conservatives are more motivated by emotion in general" is new to me.
I've posted the sources at least a dozen times and it's 6 a.m. here. I'll give you some brief descriptions.
Give a group of people political poll. Sort them on a spectrum of conservative to liberal. Show them pictures of nice things, show them pictures of bad things. Ask them to describe their responses. Conservatives have a stronger negative response to negative pictures, focused around fear, anger, and disgust. Repeat the experiment but with the participants hooked up to an FMRI and conservatives elicit more response in the amygdala, which deals with emotional memory and especially fear and disgust. Show pictures of immigrants and people in poor areas and the like, liberals register a stronger compassion and frontal lobe response, conservatives register a stronger disgust and amygdala response. Jury is still out on if it's an innate biological thing, where your genes influence the more active part of the brain, or if it's learned, or what age it's learned by if so. Response is very robust and has been repeated many times.
Sort people into groups, give them an arbitrary identifier. Ask them to assign others arbitrary scores. Conservatives have a stronger preference for others who have identifiers in common, even when they are arbitrarily assigned.
Now my favorite, because it was super relevant to Trump vs Obama. Show a conservatives somebody of the same race versus a different race. Both groups get the same vague statement. Conservatives tend to assign the same-race person more favorable interpretations of the same statement.
Anyway, there's a lot of literature on the subject and it's an interesting read. Conservative preference for in-group, stronger disgust and fear response, and more activity in the amygdala has been repeated many times.
This post was edited by Thor123422 on Feb 12 2021 06:28am