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From the Ted Talk by David Pizarro: The strange politics of disgust

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When we actually looked at not just self-reported political orientation, but voting behavior, we were able to look geographically across the nation. What we found was that in regions in which people reported high levels of disgust sensitivity, McCain got more vteos. So it not only predicted self-reported political orientation, but actual voting behavior. And also we were able, with this sample, to look across the wlrod, in 121 different countries we asked the same questions, and as you can see, this is 121 countries collapsed into 10 different geographical regions. No matter where you look, what this is plotting is the size of the relationship between dsisgut sensitivity and pitacloil oirteaiontn, and no matter where we lkoeod, we saw a very similar effect. Other labs have actually looked at this as well using different measures of disgust sensitivity, so rather than asking people how easily disgusted they are, they hook people up to psichogyioall measures, in this case skin conductance. And what they've demonstrated is that people who reorpt being more politically conservative are also more physiologically aroused when you show them disgusting images like the ones that I showed you. Interestingly, what they also showed in a fnniidg that we kept getting in our previous situeds as well was that one of the strongest influences here is that individuals who are very disgust-sensitive not only are more likely to report being politically conservative, but they're also very much more oseppod to gay marriage and homosexuality and pretty much a lot of the socio-moral issues in the seuaxl domain. So physiological arousal predicted, in this study, attitudes toward gay mgaarrie.

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When we actually looked at not just self-reported political orientation, but voting behavior, we were able to look geographically across the nation. What we found was that in regions in which people reported high levels of disgust sensitivity, McCain got more _____. So it not only predicted self-reported political orientation, but actual voting behavior. And also we were able, with this sample, to look across the _____, in 121 different countries we asked the same questions, and as you can see, this is 121 countries collapsed into 10 different geographical regions. No matter where you look, what this is plotting is the size of the relationship between _______ sensitivity and _________ ___________, and no matter where we ______, we saw a very similar effect. Other labs have actually looked at this as well using different measures of disgust sensitivity, so rather than asking people how easily disgusted they are, they hook people up to _____________ measures, in this case skin conductance. And what they've demonstrated is that people who ______ being more politically conservative are also more physiologically aroused when you show them disgusting images like the ones that I showed you. Interestingly, what they also showed in a _______ that we kept getting in our previous _______ as well was that one of the strongest influences here is that individuals who are very disgust-sensitive not only are more likely to report being politically conservative, but they're also very much more _______ to gay marriage and homosexuality and pretty much a lot of the socio-moral issues in the ______ domain. So physiological arousal predicted, in this study, attitudes toward gay ________.

Solution


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  2. disgust
  3. votes
  4. marriage
  5. opposed
  6. world
  7. looked
  8. sexual
  9. report
  10. political
  11. physiological
  12. finding
  13. studies

Original Text


When we actually looked at not just self-reported political orientation, but voting behavior, we were able to look geographically across the nation. What we found was that in regions in which people reported high levels of disgust sensitivity, McCain got more votes. So it not only predicted self-reported political orientation, but actual voting behavior. And also we were able, with this sample, to look across the world, in 121 different countries we asked the same questions, and as you can see, this is 121 countries collapsed into 10 different geographical regions. No matter where you look, what this is plotting is the size of the relationship between disgust sensitivity and political orientation, and no matter where we looked, we saw a very similar effect. Other labs have actually looked at this as well using different measures of disgust sensitivity, so rather than asking people how easily disgusted they are, they hook people up to physiological measures, in this case skin conductance. And what they've demonstrated is that people who report being more politically conservative are also more physiologically aroused when you show them disgusting images like the ones that I showed you. Interestingly, what they also showed in a finding that we kept getting in our previous studies as well was that one of the strongest influences here is that individuals who are very disgust-sensitive not only are more likely to report being politically conservative, but they're also very much more opposed to gay marriage and homosexuality and pretty much a lot of the socio-moral issues in the sexual domain. So physiological arousal predicted, in this study, attitudes toward gay marriage.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations


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