Politics and Eye Movement: Liberals Focus Their Attention on 'Gaze Cues' Much Differently Than Conse

[lafinjack]

It goes without saying that conservatives and liberals don't see the world in the same way. Now, research from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln suggests that is exactly, and quite literally, the case

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[doverz]

Very interesting.

[luomo]

In a new study, UNL researchers measured both liberals' and conservatives' reaction to "gaze cues" -- a person's tendency to shift attention in a direction consistent with another person's eye movements, even if it's irrelevant to their current task -- and found big differences between the two groups.

Liberals responded strongly to the prompts, consistently moving their attention in the direction suggested to them by a face on a computer screen. Conservatives, on the other hand, did not.

[muse_misery]

In other words, conservatives only care about themselves.

This is really shocking News.

[everythingonit]

So conservatives can't even follow the graph and chart shows people put on in the house and senate

[pyaar_ishq]

Sounds like a disability to me. We count autism as one because of social problems... being unaffected by others in society sounds like a problem...

But, I think conservative is too broad here. Most of the conservatives in my life are extremely kind and socially sensitive and I would bet money they would have been with the liberals on this one. Maybe they self identify as conservative due to religion, but when tested actually aren't? I know that happened to my ex..