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The Biology of Fear

A paper by Oxley et al. in Science (September 2008, 321(5896), pp. 1667-1670) explores how people’s inherent tolerance for sudden noises and threatening visual images relates to their political attitudes. They found that people with lower sensitivities to such disruptions (or higher tolerances) were more likely to support foreign aid, liberal immigration policies, pacifism, and [...]