6. Liberals showed eletrodermal activity BAS and conservative BIS when viewing stimuli.
Dodd et al (2012) (2)
Graham et al (2009)
7. Personalities which demand for control and conflict related ACC activity are related.
Botvinik et al (2001)
Smith et al (2011)
8. fMRI. Increase grey matter in ACC associated with greater liberalism. Conservatism associated with larger right amygdala. Algorithm could predict 76% of lib/con at ends of scale.
Kanai et al (2011)
Amodio (2007)
9. Political beliefs initially thought to be influenced soely by environment such as parental influence.
Jennings et al (2009)
Jost et al (2003)
10. Disagreements in political belief have often resulted in violent conflict.
Dodd et al (2012)
Takahashi (2007)
11. There is now evidence that genetic factors may play a role.
Oxley et al (2008)
Botvinick et al (2001)
12. Found in 88 studies that conservatism correlated with intolerance to ambiguity (0.34), need for closure (0.26) and openness to experience (-0.32).
Jost et al (2003)
Graham et al (2009)
13. Argues political beliefs are due to genetic factors which interact with the environment.
Alfrod et al (2005)
Oxley et al (2008)
14. Greater liberalism was associated with stronger conflict-related activity in anterior cingulate cortex.
Amodio (2007)
Kanai et al (2011)
15. 31,000, positive relationship was found between political disgust and conservatism,
Inbar et al (2008)
Dodd et al (2012)
16. Inducing disgust has been shown to temporarily cause right wing beliefs.
Graham et al (2009)
Takahashi (2007)
17. 1/3 of variance in BIS/BAS determined by genes.
Takahashi et al (2007)
McLean and McMillian (2009)
18. Viewed disgusting images, skin conductors. People with marked involuntary responses are especially likely to hold conservative beliefs such as opposing gay marriage.
