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The Relationship Between Disgust, Sensitivity, and Conservatism
For 70 years, psychologists denied the existence of left-wing authoritarianism. But there's been a new line of research developed that bears on this. We found low verbal intelligence and being female were solid predictors of left radical left-wing beliefs combined with the willingness to use compulsion and force to enforce them. And so I wonder if what we saw wasn't so much a disgust reaction of the sort that you would associate with conservatives, but an opportunity for malignant narcissists to use fear to manipulate the population.