Robert M. Sapolsky Quote
When conservatives, but not liberals, are instructed to use reappraisal techniques (e.g., Try to view the images in a detached, unemotional way), they express less conservative political sentiments. In contrast, a suppression strategy (Don’t let your feelings show when you’re looking at this image) doesn’t work. As we saw, make a liberal tired, hungry, rushed, distracted, or disgusted, and they become more conservative. Make a conservative more detached about something viscerally disturbing, and they become more liberal.46
Robert M. Sapolsky
When conservatives, but not liberals, are instructed to use reappraisal techniques (e.g., Try to view the images in a detached, unemotional way), they express less conservative political sentiments. In contrast, a suppression strategy (Don’t let your feelings show when you’re looking at this image) doesn’t work. As we saw, make a liberal tired, hungry, rushed, distracted, or disgusted, and they become more conservative. Make a conservative more detached about something viscerally disturbing, and they become more liberal.46