Liberal or conservative? Reactions to disgust are a dead giveaway
Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 12:20
in Psychology & Sociology
The way a person's brain responds to a single disgusting image is enough to reliably predict whether he or she identifies politically as liberal or conservative. As we approach Election Day, the researchers say that the findings reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on October 30 come as a reminder of something we all know but probably don't always do: "Think, don't just react."