Tension: signaling your attractive health vs political sanity

[perspectivism]

High openness-to-experience liberals are more physiologically confident.

At least for 46 adult participants with strong political beliefs (would love to see that screening process!, like an opposite of jury selection??), a team of EIGHT psychologists (what a ratio for a primary study!) famously found in 2008:
Views may have a biological basis.

Comments

[kenshi]

Interesting. I'm severely hearing impaired, so noise doesn't really faze me much, but I also have low latent inhibition and am super-sensitive to visual stimuli and glare.

[perspectivism]

With better hearing, you might become the Stalin to Moldbug's Lenin!

Nobody REACTS like reactionaries.

[kenshi]

At least I'd be immune to the screams of the bureaucratic class as they're being liquidated. ;-)

Srsly tho, I'm a HUGE Moldbug fan, even if his latest stuff has been a bit sub-par.

[selfishgene]

'lower physical sensitivities to ... threatening visual images' - then why do liberals panic at the sight of a holstered gun?

[perspectivism]

LOL

Threats are in the eye of the beholder!

[kenshi]

Because their native tongue is the language of power, so a gun is a statement they cannot ignore.