It poses all sorts of uncomfortable possibilities to participants gauging their reactions on a scale of 1-5 to vomit, graveyards, preserved body parts, squashed earthworms and monkey meat.

All at once? Yeah, that could be tough to handle.

vomit, graveyards, preserved body parts, squashed earthworms and monkey meat.

TOGA! TOGA! TOGA!

As a college student, I'm getting a kick out of my joint studies right now.

Churchill2004: As a college student, I'm getting a kick out of my joint studies right now.

Heh heh. "Joint" studies.

More science to be ignored.

Every time a republican wins an election, God pukes.

Churchill2004: As a college student, I'm getting a kick out of my joint studies right now.

Came for this.

/Leaving satisfied.

FTFA: But conservatives are literally the more easily disgusted of the two when it comes to such squeamish things as maggots, questionable toilet seats and the prospect of eating monkey meat.

Horseshiat.

If this was true, then there'd be no such thing as gun-toting rednecks who shoot at anything that moves, gut whatever they shoot, and then call it dinner.

"But conservatives are literally the more easily disgusted of the two when it comes to such squeamish things as maggots, questionable toilet seats and the prospect of eating monkey meat"

Oh, and don't forget gay sex too... as ironic as that is.

I invite any attractive female college student to study my joint for extra credit.

GoodHomer: Horseshiat.

If this was true, then there'd be no such thing as gun-toting rednecks who shoot at anything that moves, gut whatever they shoot, and then call it dinner.

Those aren't the kind of conservatives they have at Cornell, Yale, and Harvard.

FTFA: vomit, graveyards, preserved body parts, squashed earthworms and monkey meat.

Hell, around here, we call that "Tuesday."

Yeah, this doesn't square with most EMTs, Paramedics, and Firefighters I know being Republican.

SVC_conservative: Yeah, this doesn't square with most EMTs, Paramedics, and Firefighters I know being Republican.

Anyone who seriously thinks the whole population can be divided into two homogeneous political blocs is insane. That's why I hate these studies. Aside from being pointless and completely unscientific, they reinforce the repugnant notion that "liberalism" and "conservativism", with the random grab-bag of political positions those two words connote in American politics, have a biological basis. The only reason our body politic is so bipolar is the first-past-the-post electoral system. If we had some kind of non-duopoly-encouraging election system, there would be much less reason for, say, libertarians and social authoritarians to be lumped in together on "the right". (or, on the other hand, for environmentalists and labor unionists to be together on "the left"). We'd have a much more representative political system, because parties and blocs would be more free to reflect the ideological diversity of the population.

"You can try to read profound things into these findings, but you'd risk being a pseudo-intellectual if you try to ascribe to the notion that conservatives are as uncomfortable about bugs as they are about abortion," Mr. Gray said.


lolwut

Values, ideology affected by sensitivity

Why yes, carts do pull horses.

Conservatives usually do have poor table manners.

they aren't more disgusting. they're just Greedy and Selfish. everyone has these traits to a degree, but Republicans have more extreme amounts

they can't related to a World outside of their world.

once you understand their Greed and selfishness, then you can better understand their motives and why they do the things they do.

i'm grateful that i don't have to deal with many republicans. they're some who i can respect, but i will never think they way they do.

/dev/null/GOP

oh, its CONservative, not conservative.


just fyi.

GoodHomer: FTFA: But conservatives are literally the more easily disgusted of the two when it comes to such squeamish things as maggots, questionable toilet seats and the prospect of eating monkey meat.

Horseshiat.

If this was true, then there'd be no such thing as gun-toting rednecks who shoot at anything that moves, gut whatever they shoot, and then call it dinner.

Cultural acceptability. Conservatives are way more squeamish (react more strongly psychologically) about things that an authority or society declares to be "bad". Not-conservatives tend to have less of an emotional response to these things.

Whether this has to do with neocortical development is unclear (disgust is a strong limbic reaction), but one can speculate.

AnotherDisillusionedCollegeStudent: Cultural acceptability. Conservatives are way more squeamish (react more strongly psychologically) about things that an authority or society declares to be "bad". Not-conservatives tend to have less of an emotional response to these things.

I think it's true if you use "conservative" in the literal sense, not limited to political conservatives. For example, academia is among the most conservative institutions in the country, and it has nothing to do with them voting regularly Democratic.

Hey, when you wake up every morning covered in blood, vomit and feces, you eventually become desensitized to it.

/PS this study is stupid.

PanicMan: Hey, when you wake up every morning covered in blood, vomit and feces, you eventually become desensitized to it.

/PS this study is stupid.

This isn't about Detroit.

Woohoo!

Disgusting, hell, they're downright REVOLTING.

Cornell..please.

Sure, explains why most medical doctors are Republicans.

This story reminds me of this TED lecture (pops) about how conservatives and liberals view morality differently.

The basic premise is that there are five bases of morality: preventing harm, concern for fairness, loyalty to your group, respect for authority/tradition, and maintaining purity. He found that conservatives tend to value all five, but liberals tend to put much more emphasis on fairness and preventing harm, while being much less concerned with the values of loyalty, tradition, and purity.

Therefore, on things like gay rights, liberals tend to only see the issue as a matter of fairness or equality, without ever considering any other moral bases. Conservatives, on the other hand, look at the issue through several more moral lenses and might decide that concerns over tradition or purity outweigh issues of equality.

Not sure how much validity the theory holds, but it is interesting nonetheless. Sort of explains how people can fundamentally disagree on so many issues, no matter how much discourse goes on.

MrPerfectSU: This story reminds me of this TED lecture (pops) about how conservatives and liberals view morality differently.

The basic premise is that there are five bases of morality: preventing harm, concern for fairness, loyalty to your group, respect for authority/tradition, and maintaining purity. He found that conservatives tend to value all five, but liberals tend to put much more emphasis on fairness and preventing harm, while being much less concerned with the values of loyalty, tradition, and purity.

So conservatives just have a nazi streak that liberals don't have. They really are crazy.

MrPerfectSU: loyalty, tradition, and purity.

Vague terminology that means nothing.

"Purity." Give me a goddamn break.

MrPerfectSU: The basic premise is that there are five bases of morality: preventing harm, concern for fairness, loyalty to your group, respect for authority/tradition, and maintaining purity. He found that conservatives tend to value all five, but liberals tend to put much more emphasis on fairness and preventing harm, while being much less concerned with the values of loyalty, tradition, and purity.

Umm... The values liberals value are the only ones that are actually moral. The rest are at best amoral, and usually immoral.

GoodHomer: FTFA: But conservatives are literally the more easily disgusted of the two when it comes to such squeamish things as maggots, questionable toilet seats and the prospect of eating monkey meat.

Horseshiat.

If this was true, then there'd be no such thing as gun-toting rednecks who shoot at anything that moves, gut whatever they shoot, and then call it dinner.

You didn't pay attention, did you? It's about the preservation instinct.

Maggots indicate spoiled food. Unsanitary toilet seats go back to common crapping spots -- even dogs have that. Eating foods foreign to you is a common preservation aspect, since the body wires itself to like what it knows over time to preserve itself from agents it might not be immune to. Killing and gutting a deer is just as much a survival instinct as any of the above mentioned.