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

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

Dec 22, 2010 07:04

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 ( Read more... )

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watermeloncholy December 22 2010, 18:38:07 UTC

Why? Researchers suggested that conservatives' value on personal autonomy might make them less likely to be influenced by others, and therefore less responsive to the visual prompts.

The entire party's complete lack of empathy clued me in a long time ago.

sihaya09 December 22 2010, 19:04:16 UTC

SRSLY.

haruhiko December 22 2010, 18:44:01 UTC

This was posted, and to reiterate my comment from the first time the idea that "conservatives value personal autonomy" any more than liberals do or are less susceptible to statist groupthink/herd mentality is BS; and that basing a study around political opinion formation on the artificial, bullshit lib-vs-con dipole method of political categorization is highly problematic.

lafinjack December 22 2010, 21:29:17 UTC

Oops, I searched but didn't see anything.

I also posted it because it's totally dumb.

kyra_neko_rei December 23 2010, 03:08:11 UTC

Possibly conservative ideas are more likely to appeal to people who are less responsive to others?

capthek December 23 2010, 05:48:39 UTC

"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."
That is because one group has actual empathy and tries to see things from the others perspective while the other does not. This is a very telling study.

Honestly though, does this mean that political arguments do not mean much as people are genetically hard wired to their beliefs for life?

tiger0range December 23 2010, 17:44:30 UTC

Having passed over the hump of dawning realization that politics is never about rationality and more about hardwired irrationality that everyone faces sometime in their 30's to 40's, I'm always finding it amusing to see the aging campus campaigners crash into it from the other side.

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