The upshot is that liberals and conservatives don’t just think differently, they also feel differently. This may even be a result, in part, of divergent neural responses. Full Story »
Posted by Subramanya Sastry
Pretty light-weight piece, giving an overview to the relationship between disgust and our liberal-conservative bent. I would have liked more in-depth information... and maybe some opposing point of views.
I did take the disgust test and found that I'm less prone to being disgusted than the average person... and I guess that would correlate with my more than average liberal views?
Interesting article about some psychological differences between liberals and conservatives -- and how to overcome them. This short but thoughtful opinion piece cites several recent studies on the subject, and suggests some practical ways we could discipline our brains to become more open-minded - by interacting respectfully with people whose morals are different than ours. Music to my ears ...
Simply exposing people to counterarguments may not accomplish much, he said, and may inflame antagonisms. More »
This is a decent enough piece except he left out a major contributor to this very topic, Jonathan Haidt, a University of Virginia scholar who's been studying how liberals and conservatives think for quite some time. A story about him appeared in the most recent edition of Miller-McCune magazine. A link to the story is provided here. Haidt has even created an online questionnaire that help the taker understand his own beliefs as well as the beliefs of their philosophical opposite. It's a fascinating story about a fascinating academic.
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