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[–] Sarcastaway 0 points (+0|-0)

This was seriously written by a guy named Dolan? Gooby pls.

Data from a nationally representative survey provide evidence for these hypotheses, suggesting that the relationship between epistemic needs and political preferences differs as a function of how self-relevant politics is.

This study basically concludes that conservatives tend to care abut facts that relate to themselves, and liberals tend not to care about those facts.

Which when extrapolated seems like a nice way of saying: liberals tend towards empathy even at the expense of self preservation, and conservatives tend towards self preservation even at the expense of empathy.

[–] doggone 0 points (+0|-0)

So if everyone thought things through, we'd all be conservatives.