To: abuelita who wrote (141123 ) 5/2/2018 12:52:35 AM From: Elroy Jetson Read Replies (1) | Respond to Experience is perceived differently in the mind of each person . Different people have very different ways of reacting to what they experience, from birth. Most are familiar with the Myer-Brigg or Keirsey temperament tests, the results of which are constant over your lifespan. Temperament is just one way of looking at personal attributes with don't change after birth regardless of your experiences .People's basic temperament doesn't change . Children have very different reactions to the same home with the same parents and as adults their memories are often attached to very different feelings. One former child as an adult recalls a situation as traumatic while their sibling remembers it humorously. Conservatives are essentially psychologically-crippled and ill-adapted to deal with the world around them , particularly if that world around them is a city.The trial actually tested how much the unexpected loud buzzer interfered with their ability to concentrate The ability to concentrate was far more depressed by the loud buzzer among those with conservative views and personalities and the decline in their ability to concentrate was affected more than three times longer . Needless to say, the resulting cortisol levels were far higher in conservatives a few minutes after the buzzer sounded. Buzzer, terrorism, death, hack, murder, fear, run, hide, fight-back, buzzer. That's how they're wired to respond to experience .Liberals remember hearing a buzzer while conservatives remember being frightened by a buzzer .conservatives tend to prefer to live in isolated quiet places , because the stress of noises and the activity of other humans is disabling for them rather than comforting or empowering. One of my Grandparents lived near a street where you'd hear cars driving by at night. My sister and I were lulled to sleep by the noise of the cars. The car noise would wake-up my little brother with nightmares - I'll let you guess which one of the three of us siblings is conservative. People don't change.Published in 2006 by the Journal of Research in Personality , were astonishing. In analyzing their data, the Blocks found a clear set of childhood personality traits that accurately predicted conservatism in adulthood. For instance, at the ages of three and four, the “conservative” preschoolers had been described as “uncomfortable with uncertainty,” as “rigidifying when experiencing duress,” and as “relatively over-controlled.” The girls were “quiet, neat, compliant, fearful and tearful, [and hoped] for help from the adults around.”A longitudinal study from childhood by the Blocks pinpointed another set of childhood traits that were associated with people who became liberals in their mid-twenties. The “liberal” children were more “autonomous, expressive, energetic, and relatively under-controlled.” Liberal girls had higher levels of “self-assertiveness, talkativeness, curiosity, [and] openness in expressing negative feelings.” The Blocks’ experiment suggested that the roots of our political orientations emerge as early as the fourth year of life. But it raised further, essential questions: Would children from different regions or socioeconomic backgrounds diverge into similar personality groups? And how much deeper are the origins of these crucial personality traits? - theatlantic.com - They cite this limerick by Gilbert:
