So far, yes, as far as I know. @sentientist would know more about that, since she studies disgust.
Psychologists have argued for years that conservatives are more reactive to threats and that this explains their allegedly risk-averse political views. Problem is, the research doesn't hold up.https://twitter.com/jayvanbavel/status/1140977203901009920 …
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It’s almost as if the profession purged nearly every conservative from the field and then ended up generating smear-studies about their jettisoned political opponents as a result of confirmation bias.
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Hard to have much faith in widely publicized psych studies. Especially whenever they coincide with a political narrative.
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It worries me that
@sciencemagazine denied publication as this gets at the heart of the replication crisis, and also how influential the original study has been. It smacks of politics rather than science. -
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@AAASmember and these grounds for rejection are deeply troubling given the profound impact of the original study on public discourse.
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A conservative stays on 16 vs 7 A liberal hits on 16 vs 7 A centrist surrenders
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I recently saw a reference to some research trying to correlate personality traits and political stances. I looked up the actual paper. Problems with it were evident just from the abstract.
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&Science, the flagship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, published the small quantity limited locale data set paper saying conservatives are risk averse, but rejects the more statistically significant refutation. One might suspect a narrative bias.
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