New studies further support that fearful people are more Conservative, Democrats react from feelings | FreakOutNation

New studies further support that fearful people are more Conservative, Democrats react from feelings | FreakOutNation:

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"Two new studies are out which further support the theory that our political decision making could have a neurological basis, Chris Mooney from Mother Jones reports. 

 In the American Journal of Political Science, a team of researchers including Peter Hatemi of Penn State University and Rose McDermott of Brown University studied the relationship between our deep-seated tendencies to experience fear—tendencies that vary from person to person, partly for reasons that seem rooted in our genes—and our political beliefs. What they found is that people who have more fearful disposition also tend to be more politically conservative, and less tolerant of immigrants and people of races different from their own. As McDermott carefully emphasizes, that does not mean that every conservative has a high fear disposition. “It’s not that conservative people are more fearful, it’s that fearful people are more conservative,” as she puts it."