Boo!!

[tannybogus]

Easily Startled? It Could Reflect Your Politics
Those Who Startle Easily More Likely to Favor Iraq War, New Study Says

Your stance on key political issues may be directly related to how jumpy you are, a small but compelling new study suggests.

In the study, released Thursday in the journal Science, Rice University professor of political science John Alford and his colleagues studied 46 subjects with strong political beliefs. They subjected these people to startling stimuli then compared responses with their stated viewpoints on key political issues.

Those subjects who were the most startled by the unexpected or disturbing stimuli were also the ones who were most likely to favor such issues as increased defense spending, capital punishment, patriotism, and the Iraq War.

The people who were less startled by the stimuli, which included such things as a spider crawling across the face of a terrified person or loud, unexpected noises, tended to support foreign aid, liberal immigration policies, pacifism and gun control.

"We were probably as startled as the people who saw the picture of the spider to find that this works, and it is quite accurate," Alford says. "These are relatively straightforward tests, and the results are very crisp."

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/story?id=5832571&page=1

Rethugs are a jumpy lot! They will try every trick in the book before the election. An October surprise??

[SmokingJacket]

1. Hm, I'm very jumpy, but am left wing as they come.

Exception that proves the rule??

[Jane Austin]

7. Me, too.

I've put a small windchime outside my office for my husband to set to chiming before he comes in my office at the store.

Otherwise, he scares me out of my skin when he first speaks.

I think I'm hyper-focusing on what I'm doing or reading, thus the startle response.

[Winterblues]

2. You scared me so I need Republicans to protect me...

:shrug: That has been obvious for some time now. Put the fear of Gawd into people and they will do what you say...

[Vickers]

3. Fear drives them.

It all boils down to them being skeerdy-cats.

[gateley]

4. It's the Party of Fear.

Fear of terra. Fear of having people live off of YOUR money. Fear of being screwed. Fear of everything.

[jovi]

5. The only thing that scares me is McCain/Palin in the white house

[CrispyQ]

6. Fear of those different than you. Fear of those you don't understand.

Fear that someone might get something they don't deserve. Fear that someone might get something you didn't get.

Fear, fear, fear, fear, fear, fear. No wonder they're mean, hateful bastards. I'd be mean too, if I had to deal with that much fear in my life.

I watched my mother become very fearful the last 20 years of her life & it was a sad thing to witness. The more fearful she became, the more bitter & hateful she became.

[gateley]

9. I know - acting out of fear makes one become an ugly person. It's heartbreaking.

And it's an awful way to live.

[Kceres]

8. EEEEEEK!

Thanks. Now I have to take another Xanax.