Political Leanings Revealed by the Eyes

Across a variety of tasks, we are beginning to find a consistent pattern where conservatives are more responsive to threat/disgust, more responsive to angry faces, and less sensitive to gaze cues than liberals,” said researcher Michael Dodd, a psychologist at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “Liberals, on the other hand, are proving to be more responsive to positive/appetitive stimuli, more responsive to happy faces, and more sensitive to gazes.

Possible explanation:

One possibility is that liberals are more empathetic and thus more responsive to others. Another theory is that conservatives are better at following instructions and were thus more likely to listen when the researchers said to ignore the face.

Dodd and his colleagues believe that a more likely explanation is that conservatives value personal autonomy more than liberals, making them less likely to be influenced by others.

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Speaking of eyes, any red-blooded American male of the 80’s should know these set of eyes.

Sorry, Betty Davis, you ain’t got nothin’ on her.

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Bag of Randomness

  • I feel there’s a lack of a huge after Christmas sale.
  • Hawaii’s governor plans on ending the Obama birth certificate once and for all.  I hate to break it to him, but people will believe what they want to believe.
  • Remember that Money Drop couple that guessed the right answer but the show told them they were wrong?  Well, it turns out the show admitted the mistake, but instead of giving them a chance at starting from their $800,000 correct answer, they are willing to allow them to start over on a new taping of the show.
  • My 401k is getting close to recovering from the huge market drop off a few years back.
  • I’ve always wanted to watch Ice Station Zebra just to try to figure out Howard Hughes fascination with it.  He reportedly watch this movie in a continuous loop.
  • I don’t understand why the 49’ers would fire a head coach with just one game remaining.
  • I forgot to mention this, but I recently took about three whole minutes out of my schedule to become an organ donor.  I hope you will do the same, if you’re a Texan you can do so here.  For me, there isn’t a reason just to let my body rot or be cremated if there was a chance to save a life.  God gave me this body, and I want to give what I can of it to others.
  • I recently discovered that Jerry Jones is the Chairman of the NFL Network Committee.  Is it possible the guy has too much on his plate?
  • Wisconsin town asks: Where’d we bury that time capsule? – I remember burying a time capsule in a geography class in high school.  We all thought that they way Mineral Wells spent their money, the building it was buried next to would still be there a decade later.  Several years later that building was tore down and a new high school was built over it.  I have no idea if that time capsule was ever found.
  • Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers
  • You always hear girls referring to their friends as “girlfriends” but you will never hear a man refer to his friends as “boyfriends.”
  • Grace
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Man charged with felony for reading his wife’s e-mail to track an affair

A Rochester Hills man faces up to 5 years in prison — for reading his wife’s e-mail.

Oakland County prosecutors, relying on a Michigan statute typically used to prosecute crimes such as identity theft or stealing trade secrets, have charged Leon Walker, 33, with a felony after he logged onto a laptop in the home he shared with his wife, Clara Walker.

Using her password, he accessed her Gmail account and learned she was having an affair. He now is facing a Feb. 7 trial. She filed for divorce, which was finalized earlier this month.

Leon Walker told the Free Press he routinely used the computer and that she kept all of her passwords in a small book next to the computer.

“It was a family computer,” he said. “I did work on it all the time.”

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