Reply #30: You make a good point.

[msmcghee]

(Your argument for nurture rather than nature.) Along those same lines, I also believe that we can adopt different modes in different circumstances.

It would be interesting for example, if all the students were given $20 at the start that was put into a pot. Then if the students had been told they were on one of two equal sized teams competing against the other. If their team won, they'd get to divvy up the whole pot between them, doubling the $20 to $40.

i.e. I think that liberals can become more like conservatives - knee jerk, black and white behavior decisions - when we think we are at risk of losing something important. It would be interesting to compare the outcome of the original test with this hypothetical one.

Even easier, take a random sampling of some of the posts in some of our more contentious threads here at DU. You'd have a hard time telling the difference between some of our comments and what you'd find any day at Free Republic.