Conservatives Are Lazy Thinkers
Scott Eidelman went into a bar and proved something that most of us already suspected.
In 2012, Eidelman, a psychologist at the University of Arkansas, wanted to test a simple idea. What happens to a person’s political beliefs when they stop thinking hard? Not when they change their mind. When they stop using their mind altogether.
He walked into a bar, asked patrons their political opinions on a series of social issues, and then breathalyzed them. He controlled for sex, education, and how the person identified politically when sober. None of that mattered. The drunker they were, the more…
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