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« on: October 02, 2013, 09:45:39 PM »
« edited: October 02, 2013, 09:47:51 PM by shua »

There's reason to be skeptical of social psychology claims about political ideology, but several of these in this list seem plausible if understood in a limited sense.  The "differences in brains" language is too strong and deterministic - differences in mental/neurological responses is better, and even then it's a matter of relative frequencies, not an absolute difference.  Number 10 is almost a tautology, though it is modified greatly by political and social interests of those who support an ideology (ex. business executives tend to support conservative politics but may be less risk averse).

Jonathan Haidt has made some interesting arguments about how conservatives tend to rely on a wider variety of values that include sanctity and purity, among others.  On the other hand, it's often liberals who are at most ubiquitous in environmental activism and lifestyle trends that are characterized by a concern for the sanctity of the environment and revulsion at pollution.
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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2013, 04:55:29 PM »

Seems facially ludicrous to me. I think life experiences are far more important.

Life experience can make a great deal of difference in one's neural networks.
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