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09-18-2008, 09:04 PM
Depending on who you talk to, Sarah Palin is either a hard-talking breath of fresh air or a fear-mongering greenhorn. Now research suggests that such different reactions – and perhaps all political beliefs – might have a basis in biology.
"Traditionally, political scientists have focused on the environmental aspects: school, the media, the family, the church, as the things that lead to beliefs they have," says Douglas Oxley, a political scientist at the University of Nebraska, in Lincoln.
However, his team discovered that social conservatives react more strongly to shocking images and sudden noises by sweating more and blinking harder, compared to liberals. Such innate threat responses point to a biological, and perhaps genetic, basis for our politics, he says.Link (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14761-voting-republican-may-be-a-survival-response.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn14761)
so lay of crumbles okay, he can't help the way he was born.
"Traditionally, political scientists have focused on the environmental aspects: school, the media, the family, the church, as the things that lead to beliefs they have," says Douglas Oxley, a political scientist at the University of Nebraska, in Lincoln.
However, his team discovered that social conservatives react more strongly to shocking images and sudden noises by sweating more and blinking harder, compared to liberals. Such innate threat responses point to a biological, and perhaps genetic, basis for our politics, he says.Link (http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14761-voting-republican-may-be-a-survival-response.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news2_head_dn14761)
so lay of crumbles okay, he can't help the way he was born.