Matching the responses from the Wilson-Patterson Inventory with the results of the eye-tracking tests, the researchers revealed that conservatives dwelled much longer on the threatening objects than liberals did. Whereas liberals spent less than a half second more time looking at the negative images than the positive images, conservatives spent more than one and a half seconds more looking at the negative than the positive. Given that the exercise lasted a total of eight seconds, the difference is so large that “one vision specialist referred to it as an ‘eternity,’” according to Hibbing and
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