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Various studies suggest measurable differences in the psychological traits of liberals and conservatives.Conservatives are more likely to report larger social networks, greater happiness and self-esteem than liberals, are more reactive to perceived threats and more likely to interpret ambiguous facial expressions as threatening.
Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences; Deeper Than You Think: Partisanship-Dependent Brain Responses in Early Sensory and Motor Brain Regions; A Neurology of the Conservative-Liberal Dimension of Political Ideology; Brain scans remarkably good at predicting political ideology
A 2020 article from Scientific American titled, "Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences," summarizes one of Haas' findings, as follows: "In a 2017 study with her colleagues, Haas created hypothetical candidates, each belonging to the Democratic or Republican party with an assigned stances on policy issues.
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Various scholars have offered moral foundations theory as an explanation of differences among political progressives (liberals in the American sense), conservatives, and right-libertarians (libertarians in the American sense), [9] and have suggested that it can explain variation in opinion on politically charged issues such as same-sex marriage ...
Here, we explore differences in brain function in liberals and conservatives by matching publicly-available voter records to 82 subjects who performed a risk-taking task during functional imaging. Although the risk-taking behavior of Democrats (liberals) and Republicans (conservatives) did not differ, their brain activity did....
(This is the difference between a preservative, which preserves something, whether it be strawberries or something else, just the way it was, and a conservative, which conserves something about it.)