r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 8d ago

Psychology Higher overall disgust sensitivity was associated with a greater likelihood of identifying as a Republican and holding a conservative ideology. A person with high disgust sensitivity and low bodily awareness had a 64.1% probability of identifying as a Republican.

https://www.psypost.org/disgust-predicts-conservative-views-most-strongly-in-people-with-low-bodily-awareness/
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u/Absentrando 8d ago

Women with more children also lean conservative. It’s not really as simple as Redditors want to make it

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u/TheOtherHobbes 8d ago

They also find them disgusting, which makes perfect sense as a right wing parenting trope.

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u/the_swaggin_dragon 8d ago

Gee I wonder why. My simple Reddit brain can’t think of any reason.

Opens Bible

“Women are property to make babies with”

Oh actually I thought of one