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Startle Response Linked to Politics More Sensitive May Mean More Conservative, Study Finds By Shankar Vedantam Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, September 19, 2008; A09 People who startle easily in response to threatening images or loud sounds seem to have a biological predisposition to adopt conservative political positions on many hot-button issues, according to unusual new research published yesterday. The finding suggests that people who are particularly sensitive to signals of visual or auditory threats also tend to adopt a more defensive stance on political issues, such as immigration, gun control, defense spending and patriotism. People who are less sensitive...

Watch your screen closely. This is a Volkswagen advertisement from central Europe somewhere. When they finished filming the ad the people who made it noticed something moving along the side of the car, like a ghostly white mist. The ad was never approved for TV broadcast because of the unexplained ghostly phenomenon. Watch it closely and about halfway through, as the car emerges from the clump of trees you will hear a noise like a piece of paper being crumpled up. Then look and you will see the white mist crossing in front of the car then following it along...