New transatlantic research led by a University psychologist suggests conservatives prefer using nouns.
As part of the study researchers found that US presidents who were considered conservative used a greater proportion of nouns in major speeches.
The researchers, led by Dr Aleksandra Cichocka of the School of Psychology, also established that conservatives generally, to a greater degree than liberals, tend to refer to things by their names, rather than describing them in terms of their features. An example would be saying someone ‘is an optimist’, rather than ‘is optimistic’.
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