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Originally Posted by questor
Modest, how do you interpret this paragraph from the study?
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''Political scientists and psychologists have long noted differences in the
cognitive and motivational profiles of liberals and conservatives in the
USA and elsewhere. Across dozens of behavioral studies, conservatives
have been found to be more structured and persistent in their
judgments and approaches to decision-making, as indicated by higher
average scores on psychological measures of personal needs for order,
structure and closure1. Liberals, by contrast, report higher tolerance of
ambiguity and complexity, and greater openness to new experiences on
psychological measures. Given that these associations between political
orientation and cognitive styles have been shown to be heritable,
evident in early childhood, and relatively stable across the lifespan2,3,
we hypothesized that political orientation may be associated with
individual differences in a basic neurocognitive mechanism involved
broadly in self-regulation.''
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What do these words suggest to you? |
I'm sure it means just what it says. That's the introduction of the paper explaining why the authors hypothesized there would be a difference in electroencephalograph readings between self-proclaimed liberals and conservatives. This study doesn't test the premise you quote there - it's just more to put the study in context. The sources it gives for that are these:
- Alford, J.R., Funk, C.L. & Hibbing, J.R. Am. Polit. Sci. Rev. 99, 153–167 (2005)
- Block, J. & Block, J.H. J. Res. Pers. 40, 734–749 (2006)
I'd rather not go on another PDF fishing trip by the way. If you want to find those papers to support the paragraph above then try
Google Scholar.
~modest
