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The Ick Factor: Disgust Sensitivity as a Predictor of Political Attitudes |
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Traditional explanations of individual-level variation in political attitudes have emphasized events occurring in the immediate political environment but recent research has started to include baseline dispositional variations in biological traits. In this paper, we continue this trend by analyzing the relationship between political issue preferences and physiological responses to disgusting images. Previously published research reports a connection between disgust sensitivity and certain political orientations, such as those pertaining specifically to homosexuality as well as broader collections of “left-right” issues, but has relied only on self-reports of disgust sensitivity. Given that self-reports are often inaccurate, we instead record and analyze involuntary measures of disgust sensitivity; particularly, skin conductance and startle blink EMG response. These long-accepted psycho-physiological measures permit a richer and more meaningful test of the possibility that some issue preferences are at least partially shaped by bedrock physiological orientations to generic rather than overtly political stimuli. |
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Name: Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference URL: http://www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/
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| Smith, Kevin., Oxley, Douglas., Hibbing, Matthew., Alford, John. and Hibbing, John. "The Ick Factor: Disgust Sensitivity as a Predictor of Political Attitudes" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Apr 02, 2009 <Not Available>. 2010-07-07 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p362242_index.html> |
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| Smith, K. B., Oxley, D. , Hibbing, M. V., Alford, J. R. and Hibbing, J. R. , 2009-04-02 "The Ick Factor: Disgust Sensitivity as a Predictor of Political Attitudes" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association 67th Annual National Conference, The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <PDF>. 2010-07-07 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p362242_index.html |
Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: Traditional explanations of individual-level variation in political attitudes have emphasized events occurring in the immediate political environment but recent research has started to include baseline dispositional variations in biological traits. In this paper, we continue this trend by analyzing the relationship between political issue preferences and physiological responses to disgusting images. Previously published research reports a connection between disgust sensitivity and certain political orientations, such as those pertaining specifically to homosexuality as well as broader collections of “left-right” issues, but has relied only on self-reports of disgust sensitivity. Given that self-reports are often inaccurate, we instead record and analyze involuntary measures of disgust sensitivity; particularly, skin conductance and startle blink EMG response. These long-accepted psycho-physiological measures permit a richer and more meaningful test of the possibility that some issue preferences are at least partially shaped by bedrock physiological orientations to generic rather than overtly political stimuli. |
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| The Ick Factor: Physiological Sensitivity to Disgust as a Predictor of Political Attitudes Kevin B. Smith1 Douglas R. Oxley1 Matthew V. Hibbing2 John R. Alford3 John R. Hibbing1 1 Department of Political Science University of Nebraska-Lincoln 2 Department of Political Science University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 3 Department of Political Science Rice University Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association Chicago Illinois April 2008. Abstract Mounting evidence suggests political attitudes connect to broad |
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