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The cognitive styles of conservatives and liberals

PLOS offers another bit of evidence [1] that political preferences might have their genesis at low-level cognitive processes:

Liberals and conservatives engage different cognitive processes when they think about risk, and they support recent evidence that conservatives show greater sensitivity to threatening stimuli.

Here are more attempts [2] to tie political persuasion to lower level phenomena.

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