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Conservatives Really ARE Dinosaurs!

06/08/2009 by Debra

According to two Cornell University studies if you are the squimish or queasy type you are also more likely to be politically and socially conservative.

Participants who rated higher in disgust sensitivity were more likely to oppose gay marriage and abortion, issues that are related to notions of morality or purity. The researchers also found a weak correlation between disgust sensitivity and support for tax cuts, but no link between disgust sensitivity and the other issues.

And in a separate study in the current issue of the journal Emotion (Vol.9: No.3), Pizarro and colleagues found a link between higher disgust sensitivity and disapproval of gays and lesbians. For this study, the researchers used implicit measures (measures that have been shown to assess attitudes people may be unwilling to report explicitly; or that they may not even know they possess).

Interestingly, despite the ‘bleeding heart’ and other monikers denoting ‘wussiness’ it seems that Conservatives not Liberals are the ones ruled by emotion;

Liberals and conservatives disagree about whether disgust has a valid place in making moral judgments, Pizarro noted. Conservatives have argued that there is inherent wisdom in repugnance; that feeling disgusted about something — gay sex between consenting adults, for example — is cause enough to judge it wrong or immoral, even lacking a concrete reason. Liberals tend to disagree, and are more likely to base judgements on whether an action or a thing causes actual harm

Disgust was meant as a protection from things that could cause harm or disease not to pass laws or judgements on the choices or morality of others. Being more evolved it behooves us to help our Conservative brothers and sisters to …. oh wait they also don’t believe in evolution…. never mind.

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Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: conservatives, dinosaurs, disgust, Politics, psychology

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I am a passionate supporter of human rights, a mother of 6, and owned by a dog and a kitty.
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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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  1. Toe says

    06/08/2009 at 3:33 pm

    That's just a scream. Now we know who to blame for the decline in camping at our great national parks. Can you imagine having to shoo the snakes and spiders out of loud-mouthed Baird's tent? And then him whining “I like to play indoors better". Come to think of it, maybe that's why environmental standards are so low, they never go fishing, can't put a worm on a hook to catch a two-sexed, two-headed trout.

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    • April_Reign says

      06/08/2009 at 7:42 pm

      I don't like spiders and snakes and that's not what it takes to love me…..
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGJVA6pKWpw&fe…
      😀

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  2. Simon says

    06/08/2009 at 7:34 pm

    Hi April….I've always believed that the Con mindset can only be explained by some really bad toilet training. And this study only confirms it…. 🙂

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    • April_Reign says

      06/08/2009 at 7:44 pm

      😀 and they've been full of shit ever since!

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