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Title: Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals, Say Scientists
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Wired
URL Source: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/fearmongering-h/
Published: Sep 18, 2008
Author: Brandon Keim
Post Date: 2011-06-24 11:15:40 by lucysmom
Keywords: Fearmongering for Profit
Views: 14797
Comments: 28
Deep-seated political differences aren’t simply moral and intellectual: They’re also biological.
In reflex tests of 46 political partisans, psychologists found that conservatives were more likely than liberals to be shocked by sudden threats.
Accompanying the physiological differences were deep differences on hot-button political issues: military expansion, the Iraq war, gun control, capital punishment, the Patriot act, warrantless searches, foreign aid, abortion rights, gay marriage, premarital sex and pornography.
"People are experiencing the world, experiencing threat, differently," said University of Nebraska political scientist John Hibbing. "We have very different physiological orientations."
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#1. To: Badeye, A K A Stone, hondo68, Fred Mertz, Godwinson, go65, war, no gnu taxes, Skip Intro, ferret mike, jwpegler, brian s, mcgowanjm, Capitalist Eric, Mininggold (#0)
The Bush administration has been accused of exploiting fears, though it’s hardly a new approach.snip
Of course, ethics tend to be forgotten during election seasons — but fear-mongering may be counterproductive.
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Darren Schreiber, a University of California, San Diego political psychologist, contends that a candidate "who merely tries to trigger fear simply can’t be successful in the long run. Joe McCarthy had his run, but now his name is synonymous with a vile form of politics."
"Real" conservatives will never figure out that they are being exploited.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
#2. To: lucysmom (#1)
Joe McCarthy had his run, but now his name is synonymous with a vile form of politics."
You could replace McCarthy with George Bush and not change the meaning of the sentence.
#3. To: lucysmom (#0)
Conservatives Scare More Easily Than Liberals, Say Scientists
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …â€. Can I get an ‘amen’??
#4. To: no gnu taxes (#3)
Don't take any wooden nickels...
America...My Kind Of Place...
"I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..."
--GW Bush
"THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!"
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
#5. To: Skip Intro (#2)
You could replace McCarthy with George Bush and not change the meaning of the sentence.
And once again, they over-played the fear hand.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
#6. To: no gnu taxes (#3)
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
What a perfect conservative response!
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
#7. To: lucysmom (#1)
Joe McCarthy had his run, but now his name is synonymous with a vile form of politics."
Were there communists in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations?
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
#8. To: lucysmom (#0)
Another fine post from the representative of the party that purveys junk science. How's that global warmingice age working or ya?
war has to do something for entertainment. The voices in his head aren't speaking to him and his imaginary friends have found reasons not to come over anymore.
#9. To: Badeye (#7)
McCarthy was right.
Now, I know I’m not going to change the minds of any of the True Believers…those who read all of Reverend Al’s sermons, and say things like, “You know, global warming can mean warmer OR colder, wetter OR drier, cloudier OR sunnier, windier OR calmer, …â€. Can I get an ‘amen’??
#10. To: no gnu taxes (#9)
McCarthy was right.
Historical fact shows that clearly.
Whats ironic is today liberals in both the House, Senate, and Whitehouse engage in what they call 'McCarthyism' daily, with impunity.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
#11. To: Badeye (#10)
Whats ironic is today liberals in both the House, Senate, and Whitehouse
FYI...BOTH = TWO...
America...My Kind Of Place...
"I truly am not that concerned about [bin Laden]..."
--GW Bush
"THE MILITIA IS COMING!!! THE MILITIA IS COMING!!!"
--Sarah Palin's version of "The Midnight Ride of Paul revere"
I lurk to see if someone other than Myst or Pookie posts anything...
#12. To: lucysmom (#5)
And once again, they over-played the fear hand.
No, Bush did much better than McCarthy did. He got Fourth and Sixth Amendments overturned with the stoke of a pen. The drunk McCarthy could only dream of being able to do such things.
#13. To: war (#11)
FYI...BOTH = TWO...
That Limbaugh T just can't arrive soon enough. I hope he paid for speedy delivery.
#14. To: Badeye (#7)
Were there communists in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations?
It was your Fascist heroes that plotted a coup against FDR.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
#15. To: Rudgear (#8)
Another fine post from the representative of the party that purveys junk science. How's that global warmingice age working or ya?
Can you prove climate change isn't real?
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
#16. To: Skip Intro (#12)
I was thinking backlash.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
#17. To: lucysmom (#14)
Were there communists in the Roosevelt and Truman administrations?
Its a yes or no question, goofy.
And sorry, no 'hero's' of mine involved.
Proxy IP's are amusing.....lmao
#18. To: lucysmom (#0)
Sounds like the founding fathers weren't all that conservative. And explains the conservative poster's unceasing need to have those with whom they disagree banned.
#19. To: lucysmom (#1) (Edited)
"The whole aim of practical politics," wrote journalist gadfly H.L. Mencken, "is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins."
Global warming/cooling/whatever, racists under the bed, greedy corporations, the pain of having to make a decision without gov regulation. These are the things that libs fear.
Don't let any of these things pollute your beautiful mind, the government will provide all.
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
#20. To: hondo68 (#19)
Global warming/cooling/whatever, racists under the bed, greedy corporations, the pain of having to make a decision without gov regulation.
Without laws to break, no one's a criminal.
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
#21. To: lucysmom (#20)
Without laws to break, no one's a criminal.
How could you ever decide whose neck to put your jackboot on?
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
#22. To: hondo68 (#21)
Dude. Seriously. She's a LOON.
Next time you get over near Riverside, you need to look me up.
Bye, rat-boy mike. We'll miss you. [NOT]
#23. To: hondo68 (#21)
How could you ever decide whose neck to put your jackboot on?
ROTFLMAO!!!!!
"I love the 45 caliber M1911, I respect the 9MM M9 Beretta but I only carry a CZ for my own personal protection". Quote courtesy of Lt Col John Dean Cooper, recognized as the Father of Modern Handgunning
#24. To: Skip Intro (#2)
Joe McCarthy
was right. What a great man. If only he had become president maybe he could have purged the scumbag lefties from the nation.
#25. To: A K A Stone (#24)
If only he had become president maybe he could have purged the scumbag lefties from the nation.
Like the Nazis purged Jews and other undesirables from Germany?
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
#26. To: Capitalist Eric (#22)
Next time you get over near Riverside, you need to look me up.
LOL Are you back in California? I thought you said nothing could ever make you return.
#27. To: lucysmom (#25)
Like the Nazis purged Jews and other undesirables from Germany?
No.
#28. To: A K A Stone (#27)
No.
Are you going to have a nice purge without gossip, rumors and tattletales?
I've stood on a gray day in the Fifth Marine Division Cemetery on Iwo Jima, and looked off at the graves of 2,198 Americans. In the center of all those graves on a slim white pole on a concrete pedestal flew the American flag. And I swear it was not the flag of informers. And if I could take a census of all the American faces I have seen and of all the dead whose graves I have looked on--if I could ask them one simple question: "Would you like a man who told on his friend?"--there would not be one among them who would answer, "Yes."
But show me the man who informs on friends who have harmed no one, and who thereafter earns money he could not have earned before, and I will show you not a decent citizen, not a patriot, but a miserable scoundrel who will, if new pressures arise and the price is right, betray not just his friends but his country itself. Dalton Trumbo
It is our responsibility to protect that child once that child’s born too. When we start debating a budget, let’s make sure we don’t cut 100,000 vaccines. Let’s make sure we’ve got health insurance. We seem to worship what we cannot see, but as soon as that baby’s born, oh no, we don’t want to be intrusive. Texas is going to shrink government until it fits inside a women’s uterus. Senator Leticia Van de Putte
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