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Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think George Lakoff
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press

By Chris Mooney Basically, here's the gist: Kahan doesn't believe that liberals and conservatives differ in their tendency to engage in what is called “motivated reasoning. Lakoff G (2002) Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think. We found that very few participants .. Krugman P (December 9, 2010) Block that metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Conclusion: Citizenship is an obligation of the faith, therefore the Christian will not abstain from the politics of the nation-state. I think it's too So although we cannot ask whether Christians can or should be political liberals, we can and should ask what Christians are to think of liberalism. To put it simply, I think there is too much evidence that people who opt for the left, and people who opt for the right, are just different along any number of personality and moral dimensions that may skew how they respond to political information. In his book, Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, Lakoff argues that liberals and conservatives hold different values. Further, we tested whether participants were aware of the metaphor. These findings suggest that metaphors can influence not just what solution comes to mind first, but also which solution people think is best, even when given the opportunity to explicitly compare alternatives. Second, just because because neither political liberalism nor political conservatism is the gospel, it does not follow there there is a moral equivalency between the two.