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In a 2012 study published in the prestigious journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences, liberal and
conservative participants were shown collages of both negative and positive images on a computer
screen while their eye movements were recorded. While liberals were quicker to look at pleasant
images, like a happy child or a cute bunny rabbit, conservatives tended to behave oppositely.
They’d first inspect threatening and disturbing pictures—things like car wrecks, spiders on faces,
and open wounds crawling with maggots—and would also tend to dwell on them for longer.
This is what psychologists call a “negativity bias”. If you think about it, this makes a lot of sense.
When attention is biased toward the negative, the result is an overly threat-conscious appraisal
of one’s surroundings. Essentially, to many conservatives the world looks like a much scarier place.
This would seem to explain why so many major conservative viewpoints tend to be rooted in irrational
fears—like fear of the president, immigrants, Muslims, vaccinations, etc.

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A study found that conservatives have a stronger physiological response to startling noises
and graphic images. This adds to a growing body of research that indicates a hypersensitivity to
threat—a hallmark of anxiety. But why exactly would those that scare more easily tend to support
conservative views? One social psychologist from the University of Central Arkansas, Paul Nail, has
a pretty interesting answer: “Conservatism, apparently, helps to protect people against some of the
natural difficulties of living. The fact is we don’t live in a completely safe world. Things can and do go
wrong. But if I can impose this order on it by my worldview, I can keep my anxiety to a manageable
level.” This could explain the two parties’ different stances on gun control. It only makes sense that
those who startle more easily are also the ones that believe they need to own a gun.

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A 2008 study catalogued items found in the bedrooms of college students and saw that while
liberals owned more books and travel-related items, conservatives had more things that kept order
in their lives, like calendars and cleaning supplies. This tells us that liberals more often seek adventure
and novel experiences. Conservatives, on the other hand, seem to prefer a more ordered, disciplined
lifestyle. This could help explain why they are so resistant to change and progressive policies.

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Using MRI, scientists from University College London have found that students who
identify themselves as conservatives have a larger amygdala than self-described liberals.
This brain structure is involved in emotion processing, and is especially reactive to fearful
stimuli. It is possible that an oversized amygdala could create a heightened sensitivity that
may cause one to habitually overreact to anything that appears to be a potential threat,
whether it actually is one or not. This disproportionate fear response could explain how, for
example, Bush’s administration was able to gather wide public support amongst conservatives
for invading Iraq. They knew if they said the phrase “weapons of mass destruction” enough
times that it wouldn’t matter whether they really existed or not.

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7 Non-Political Differences Between Liberals and Conservatives
People who don't follow politics tend to believe that conservatives and liberals are just flip sides of the same coin. In other words, conservatives are pro-life, pro-gun, and fiscally conservative while liberals are pro-choice, anti-gun, and want to tax and spend, but otherwise, there are no real differences.

However, if you follow politics closely, you'll find that there's a gulf as wide as the ocean between the average politically active conservative and the average politically active liberal. We don't just have political differences; we view the world through very different eyes.

Of course, I don't want to oversell this because as Americans, conservatives and liberals are more alike than different. There also tend to be differences between people who are heavily politically involved and those who aren't. This column focuses on those of us who are more politically active, as opposed to people who don’t pay much attention to politics.

I'd also add that in every category, you'll find exceptions that prove the rule. Moreover, sometimes you'll find both conservatives and liberals engaging in the same behavior, although one side tends to do it much more than the other. All that being said, after spending a decade blogging, here are just a few of the genuine differences that have become apparent over the years.


1) Conservatives are more patriotic than liberals: Conservatives tend to focus on the positive things about America, while liberals focus on the negative. If the first thoughts that came to your mind when you thought of America were “slavery,” "imperialism," and "unfairly using too much of the world's resources," you probably wouldn't like America very much either. Conservatives, on the other hand, look at the fact that we saved the world in WWI, WWII, and the Cold War, take pride in the fact that we have contributed so much to the planet, and believe America has had a tremendous positive impact on history. The conservative view produces love of country. The other view produces a deep seated dislike of our nation.

2) It's socially acceptable for liberals to lie about conservatives: Whether you're talking about theNew York Times, The Washington Post, or the Daily Kos, it's considered to be perfectly acceptable to lie about conservatives. That's because, as Charles Krauthammer once said, To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

If you think your opponents are evil, you tend to be okay with using tactics that you would describe as "evil" under other circumstances to fight them. If you're up people you compare to Nazis, it’s easy to tell yourself that lying to beat them isn’t so bad. If you're in a dispute with people who you believe are just too stupid to understand what's going on, you feel compelled to try to explain yourself a little better.

3) Conservatives are results-oriented. Liberals are not: If you understand one thing about liberals, understand this: Liberalism is nothing more than "childlike emotionalism applied to adult issues." That's why they don't care very much about whether the programs they advocate work or not. Proposing programs isn't really about what will help the most people to liberals; it's about making them feel good about themselves. On the other hand, conservatives are results-oriented, which is why they tend to be so down on the government, which is inevitably slower, more expensive, and less effective than the private sector at pretty much everything.

4) Conservatives care about the Constitution. Liberals don't: Conservatives believe that we need to try to interpret the Constitution in the way that the Founders intended it to be read and if we want to change it, then we need to pass a Constitutional Amendment. Liberals believe in a "living Constitution," which is functionally no different than believing in no Constitution at all. If you believe in a "living Constitution," you think it is okay to do whatever you want for political reasons and then come up with a legal justification afterwards, which you'll then call "constitutional law."

5) Liberals are much more misogynistic than conservatives: If you're a prominent conservative woman, you will be deluged with rape threats, death threats, attacks on your family, attacks on your looks, and offers to give you a good screwing as a public service. In other words, what you've seen with Sarah Palin is actually the same thing that happens to most prominent conservative women, but on a larger scale. That's not to say that liberal women don't get some of the same treatment, but it's several orders of magnitude worse for women on the Right.

That's largely because liberals claim the "feminist" mantle and so, if they're feminists, then obviously they can't be "anti-woman" no matter what they actually say, right? Even worse, most of the actual feminist women on the Left tend to either participate in the abuse or, alternately, turn a blind eye to it as long as it's aimed at conservative women.

6) Conservatives are happier people than liberals: Despite all the claims you hear that conservatives are angry, cruel, and mean, conservatives are much happier people than liberals. This is something that has been consistently proven in studies and, let's face it -- anyone who knows a lot of liberals and conservatives will tell you that it's not a surprise. Conservatives love the country they live in, they're more likely to be Christian, and they take responsibility for their own lives instead of griping that the world is terribly unfair. If you want to be a happy person, you're more likely to be a happy conservative than a happy liberal.

7) Conservatives are better Christians than liberals: Certainly there are debates about social conservatism and Christianity on the conservative side of the fence, but Christian conservatism is considered to be a honorable and important part of the Republican base. People are going to hate to hear this, despite the fact it's absolutely true, but Christianity and liberalism have become largely incompatible. That's because there are so many liberals who are implacably hostile to Christianity that liberal Christians are left with one of two unpalatable choices. Either they can water their Christian beliefs down into thin gruel so as to be compatible with liberalism or liberal Christians can choose to be cringing dogs and keep their mouths shut while their beliefs are regularly insulted, demeaned, and attacked by their fellow liberals. Neither option should be acceptable to someone who has a strong Christian faith.
http://townhall.com/columnists.....servatives/page/full

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Is this not like the 5th time you posted this, your posts are like clockwork, its the same subject put under a different thread name. Lets see what we should expect...ahhh another right wing extremist thread, another anti-gun thread, winters coming so we should expect another skiing thread from you lmao Its also funny because everything you posted above seems to suit most liberals as well, they just tend to worry about different issues but the fear is still there..cough global warming cough

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NEW! Conservative vs Liberal Thinking Study Shows...

The new study shows that liberals tend to cite studies that claim to predict how "conservatives" think, as a method to advance their own political agenda.  Liberals will post these studies multiple times on message boards, until forum members acknowledge these studies with comments.  Liberals tend to be insecure about how they think, so they will use a scientific study that will reassure their way of thinking is the superior way of thinking, and that all other thinking outside of "liberal" thinking is defective.  Liberals will use science to prove their superior way of think, while conservative will use religious text such as the Christian Bible to support their own thought process.  Study also shows that both "conservative" and "liberal" thinking are both statist thinking patterns.  Both the "liberal" and "conservative"  believe the function of the state is to use violent force to shape society to reflect how each one thinks.   Both the "liberal" and "conservative" when in power will use the state to force their views onto EVERYBODY by threatening those that are non-compliant - through the use of fines, jail, and even death.

In conclusion.  The study finds that both types of thinking are benign and pose no threat to anyone when left alone.   HOWEVER, when these people organize into political groups and convince themselves that their way of thinking is the only way to think, and that EVERYBODY must think like them, that is when they become EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.  Both groups will use all means necessary to force conformity to their way of thinking.  They will steal from, kidnap, and even kill those that do not conform to their way of thinking.

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NEW! Conservative vs Liberal Thinking Study Shows...

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Source?????

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Source?????

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Are you asking for my source, or the source for box-a-rox first 4 posts?

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Well it was YOU I quoted...DUH!

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So what was the source Sissy?