Dems and Reps at age 3?

I would certainly agree that there is a subset of the population that can tolerate less uncertainty in life. They percieve little control over the environment.This can be seen in anxiety disorders where the individual engages in the cognitive distortion of catastrophising. The individual cannot predict the future and this leads to thinking the worst.Cognitive theory would argue that these cognitive styles are put down at a young age as we learn the rules of the world.If we don't feel secure as kids we can view the world as somewhere that we must make safe to reduce our risk of harm and consequent anxiety.To stretch a point you could argue that your goofy president is trying (in his own head) to make his environment safe the only way he knows how.The artical starts with the tale of the woman who become a Republican after 911: You could read that as causing her to percieve the world as a more uncertain and threatening place and this triggers a need to make ones environment safe.I can see easily that the security found in conservatism (small c) can reduce the anxiety provoked by intelerance of uncertainty and would also argue that this is the case with religiousity.

If you think of attractiveness as symetry and smiling you can't go far wrong.

Or (and this one really makes me mad) what we find in research is simply explaining in scientific terms what every ones knows anyway. Like folk wisdom is so damn good at curing depression.Sorry about the rant.

Dude, as I read this post your post counter reads 666.

That's why every undergraduate psychologist learns to understand the statistics of error and cannot progress through a degree without proving that we can perform the correct statistical manipulations to control for error.I dare say every statistical scientist knows this as well.

Hm.We could be in a paper war here so here's my parting shot. Brain asymmetry and facial attractiveness: Facial beauty is not simply in the eye of the beholder. - Cogprints