Re:gun control (Score 1)

This isn't the sole study on political orientation and personality traits. There is a HUGE! Huge! huge! field that studies this. To me some one who reads psychology journals, This news that republicans are more fearful isn't news, Its not even old news. Ask any social psychology professor out there. They all know this. This stuff is pretty much accepted and expected. Secondly, Yes scientist do realize you can not place people into two dichotomous categories. A lot of times they use this advanced form of surveying called a "SCALE". Even more so they use multiple regression to see how different variables interact with each other because its not always as simple as a 1 to 1 positive correlation. Additionally. It is also known in the psychology that fear makes your conservative. So people can become conservative in different areas their life. It just so happens that republicans are just naturally more scared than democrats and that makes them more traditionally conservative. Conservatives are also correlated with strong dichotomous thinking and compartmentalize thinking and also have trouble with counter factual thinking. Hmm funny.