Sensitive liberals and unfeeling conservatives?
ideology
interoception
physiology
politics
Journal
Politics and the life sciences : the journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
ISSN: 1471-5457
Titre abrégé: Politics Life Sci
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8800535
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
03 2023
03 2023
Historique:
entrez:
7
3
2023
pubmed:
8
3
2023
medline:
9
3
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The stark divide between the political right and left is rooted in conflicting beliefs, values, and personality-and, recent research suggests, perhaps even lower-level physiological differences between individuals. In this registered report, we investigated a novel domain of ideological differences in physiological processes: interoceptive sensitivity-that is, a person's attunement to their own internal bodily states and signals (e.g., physiological arousal, pain, and respiration). We conducted two studies testing the hypothesis that greater interoceptive sensitivity would be associated with greater conservatism: one laboratory study in the Netherlands using a physiological heartbeat detection task and one large-scale online study in the United States employing an innovative webcam-based measure of interoceptive sensitivity. Contrary to our predictions, we found evidence that interoceptive sensitivity may instead predict greater political liberalism (versus conservatism), although this association was primarily limited to the American sample. We discuss implications for our understanding of the physiological underpinnings of political ideology.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
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