Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2012 Mar 5;367(1589):640-9. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0268.
We report evidence that individual-level variation in people's physiological and attentional responses to aversive and appetitive stimuli are correlated with broad political orientations. Specifically, we find that greater orientation to aversive stimuli tends to be associated with right-of-centre and greater orientation to appetitive (pleasing) stimuli with left-of-centre political inclinations. These findings are consistent with recent evidence that political views are connected to physiological predispositions but are unique in incorporating findings on variation in directed attention that make it possible to understand additional aspects of the link between the physiological and the political.
我们报告了证据,表明人们对厌恶和愉悦刺激的生理和注意力反应的个体差异与广泛的政治取向相关。具体来说,我们发现,对厌恶刺激的更大倾向往往与右倾,而对愉悦(令人愉快)刺激的更大倾向则与左倾的政治倾向相关。这些发现与最近的证据一致,即政治观点与生理倾向有关,但独特之处在于纳入了关于定向注意力变化的发现,这使得理解生理和政治之间联系的更多方面成为可能。