on the behavioral and physiological correlates of political (left vs. right) ideology.
http://amodiolab.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/Jost-Amodio-2012.pdf This presents a very good summary of the research so far. What's interesting is how different areas converge to suggest the same thing - behavior measures, personality tests (ie., Opennness to Experience), functional MRI's and Evoked Potential Tasks (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evoked_potential), all suggest that neurophysiological differences between self-identified conservatives and progressives are in certain areas of the brain, those areas that deal with fear related information and those that can handle complex reasoning and tolerance for ambiguity. Also have found an interesting article that looks at the differences between liberals, conservatives and libertarians on a wide variety of measures. Just dug it up and need to go through it more but so far very interesting, (and relevant to several of the current discussions on morality here). http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/articles/manuscripts/iyer.koleva.submitted.understanding-libertarian-morality.pub610.pdf ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359578 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
