Political Divisions Between Conservatives, Liberals Mirror Reactions To Negative Stimuli

From the HUFF POST:

If you walk away from holiday dinners fuming that conservative Uncle Morton just can’t see your point of view, or that liberal Aunt Betty just doesn’t get it, a new finding may make it easier to cool your jets. According to the study, conservatives and liberals pay attention to their environments differently, meaning the two sides of the political spectrum quite literally don’t see eye-to-eye.

Conservatives pay more attention to negative stimuli compared with liberals, the study found…

“Based on your biology, you might be experiencing and processing something in a fundamentally different way from someone else,” Dodd said…

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