“liberals respond much more strongly to such “gaze” cues than conservatives.
Wouldn’t manipulative people do that? Or dependent people? I’m trying to picture a panhandler standing on a busy street trying to spot the next sucker. Or a mugger on the lookout for his next victim.
“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.”
He got it right that time. Conservatives, almost by definition, deal with things the way they see them, not the way some “authority” says they are.
Short of suicide, no.