Researchers have found a correlation between being more easily disgusted and political conservatism.

[moobu2]

"Easily Grossed Out? You Might Be A Conservative!


ScienceDaily (June 5, 2009) — Are you someone who squirms when confronted with slime, shudders at stickiness or gets grossed out by gore? Do crawly insects make you cringe or dead bodies make you blanch?


If so, chances are you're more conservative -- politically, and especially in your attitudes toward gays and lesbians -- than your less-squeamish counterparts, according to two Cornell studies.

The results, said study leader David Pizarro, Cornell assistant professor of psychology, raise questions about the role of disgust -- an emotion that likely evolved in humans to keep them safe from potentially hazardous or disease-carrying environments -- in contemporary judgments of morality and purity.

In the first study, published in the journal Cognition & Emotion, Pizarro and co-authors Yoel Inbar of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and Paul Bloom of Yale University surveyed 181 U.S. adults from politically mixed "swing states." They subjected these adults to two indexes: the Disgust Sensitivity Scale (DSS), which offers various scenarios to assess disgust sensitivity, and a political ideology scale. From this they found a correlation between being more easily disgusted and political conservatism."


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[havocmom]

1. Does not explain my bro who lives with probably 50 cats

and whose house makes me gag and puke, even though I have a poor sense of smell and am not easy to gross out.

[Mythsaje]

2. Hmmm.

I don't like slimy or sticky things, hate it when people dispose of gum irresponsibly, don't like spiders crawling on me, and have never really seen a dead body.

And I'm not at all conservative. Gays don't bother me in the least, male or female. I don't UNDERSTAND male homosexuality, but that's mostly because I don't particularly LIKE men in the first place. Lesbianism makes perfect sense to me because, hey, women are awesome.

My wife, who was an paramedic and can handle almost anything without flinching, is somewhat more conservative (in a Libertarian way) than I am. Then again, she's always been very pro gay rights, so that definitely doesn't count in this respect.

[katanalori]

3. Could be.

I notice the Repukes thrive on fear - they use the word "scary" over and over and over.

[MrsBrady]

4. is this for real???

I'm a freaking hard core lefty, and I can't stand blood and gore.
my own sinus drainage makes me want to puke.

What makes me want to puke the most IS conservatives, especially.

[crikkett]

5. Now this, is three pounds of baloney.

What a stupid, Stepford premise.

[msongs]

6. what if you are easily disgusted BY conservatism? nt