Posted on 01/30/2006 9:23:01 AM PST by Deek1969
Put a group of people together at a party and observe how they behave. Differently than when they are alone? Differently than when they are with family? What if they're in a stadium instead of at a party? What if they're all men?
The field of social psychology has long been focused on how social environments affect the way people behave. But social psychologists are people, too, and as the United States has become increasingly politically polarized, they have grown increasingly interested in examining what drives these sharp divides: red states vs. blue states; pro-Iraq war vs. anti-Iraq war; pro-same-sex marriage vs. anti-same-sex marriage. And they have begun to study political behavior using such specialized tools as sophisticated psychological tests and brain scans
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Big time!!
Studies have shown that Democratic voters are biased in underestimating Bush's intelligence and in thinking that their losing candidates, Gore and Kerry, are smarter.
The Post prints this study at the same time they print an article that states.
"In Judge Alito we see patterns, patterns which demonstrate a hostility to the disadvantaged and the poor," said Kerry, the Democrats' 2004 presidential nominee.Senate to Decide on Ending Alito Debate
I would rather be called a racist than vote for a pro-choice "Republican."
You have to understand that the Libs don't see Condi as Black because she is a Republican. Libs believe that all blacks have to be Democrat or else they are "selling out" their own people or "acting white."
And we all know that this type of thinking is, in no way, racist.
Actaully, what the survey says is that people an unscientific online survey found that people who said they were from places where Bush won were more likely to say that they they distrusted blacks than people who said they were from places where Kerry won. This whole study is worthless.
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