That practical momentum, conservative in its emotions but radical in its taste for adventure, runs through Westerns, Andy Hardy movies, "The Flintstones," and "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," before arriving at the land of Pixar.
Finally, if conservatives exhibit one emotion in unison in America, it is anger, and yet Buchanan, who is liked by almost everyone who knows him even those who find his views abhorrent, is known as a kind of pussycat in person -- however effectively he plays a tiger on television.
Hockey's common wisdom holds that the road team should "take the home crowd out of the game" by playing a methodical and conservative style that squelches emotion in the arena.
MTV's True Life documentary series recently featured a group of young Saudis grappling with the kingdom's rigid social norms – and their cry for change stirred bitter emotions in conservative quarters.
However, whereas controls tended to adopt a more conservative criterion for all emotions and a liberal criterion for neutrality when the faces were upside-down, schizophrenic patients presented a decision criterion pattern that was similar for the two orientations and similar to controls in upside-down emotion recognition.
Bevan and Cannon show how Gingrich's anti-media tirades were carefully calculated to tap into the conservative base's strongest emotions, more so than any reflection of true outrage.
Ron takes issue with Haidt in one fundamental way: he thinks that the care and empathy that liberals better display are more innate traits -- "which even animals display" -- while the hierarchy and sanctity of conservatives are learned emotions.
But there is no doubt that at the moment, Cruz has tapped into the rawest of emotions among the conservative base, which continues to applaud and reward those who most stridently and loudly oppose Obama.
Both liberal and conservative heterosexuals may feel emotional "disgust" (Haidt's word) at same sex relationships, but liberals then use their reason to realize that, since no one is harmed, it should be legalized; conservatives, however, just allow their emotions to push for laws banning it.
Political conservatives sometimes conjecture that the rancorous emotion of envy fuels the impulse to egalitarian movements.
