{"id":286,"date":"2012-02-10T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-11T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=286"},"modified":"2012-02-10T22:43:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-11T02:43:00","slug":"are-conservatives-more-fearful-than-liberals-tea-party-and-the-right-alternet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=286","title":{"rendered":"Are Conservatives More Fearful Than Liberals? | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/teaparty\/153974\/Are_Conservatives_More_Fearful_Than_Liberals%3F\/\">Are Conservatives More Fearful Than Liberals? | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Their political advisers must understand a psychological phenomenon that researchers have been studying for some time now: conservatives appear to be motivated by fear in a way that liberals are not. An expanding body of research suggests that Republicans and Democrats differ on some fundamental level in how they respond to positive and negative stimuli. A new study, published in the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, adds even more evidence to the theory that these two groups quite literally see the world differently.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln showed people a series of photos \u2014 some endearing, some disgusting \u2014 and then measured their physiological and cognitive reactions. Conservatives, in keeping with past literature, reacted more strongly to the negative images, and liberals strongly to the positive ones.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211; Sent using Google Toolbar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Conservatives More Fearful Than Liberals? | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet: Their political advisers must understand a psychological phenomenon that researchers have been studying for some time &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=286\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Are Conservatives More Fearful Than Liberals? | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[95,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-framing","category-right-wing-noise-machine"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}