Okimoto and Gromet , Journal of Personality and Social Psychology(2015 )
The difference between bourgeois and big ideology could be as simple as noting the departure between a trilateral and a vaguely triangle - like blob . A young field of study in theJournal of Personality and Social Psychologyfinds that conservativist are more inflexible about classifying shapes than progressive .
The report , conduct by researchers at the University of Queensland and the University of Pennsylvania , explores the surmisal that conservatives are more sore to deviation than liberal . In three unlike experiment , researchers involve people to secern between thoroughgoing and imperfect shapes . The work subjects also filled out questionnaires regarding their political beliefs and their sentience of moral outrage over group of the great unwashed who deviate from societal norms or rules .
They found that the more button-down views a person endorsed , the more probable they were to tell apart between perfect shape and their ambiguously imperfect vis-a-vis — like a triangle that ’s just a little rounded or a slightly shaky roundabout . In other quarrel , conservatives were more tender to deviance from the visual measure , just as they might be more sensitive to aberrancy from social norms .
This is not the first study to tie political ideology to citizenry ’s reactions to seemingly unrelated visuals . A 2014 study bump thatconservatives react more stronglyto disgusting ikon than liberals . And there ’s a whole body of research that assay to splice political notion with difference in the brain . MRI scansof liberal and conservatives have shown that the latter run to have heavy corpus amygdaloideum , a neighborhood of the Einstein that plays a role in veneration and menace recognition . One 2014 study found that Conservative have a greater biastoward negativeness . A 2015 sketch find that conservatives havemore self - controlthan liberals .
[ h / t : Salon ]
