Scientific research into how animals and humans perceive equality and hierarchy.
Studies show that under stress, pressure, or if influenced by alcohol, people are more willing to accept hierarchy. If there is more of a feeling of freedom and safety, they are more likely to be open to freedom.
The researchers’ hunch was that it takes mental effort to overcome hierarchical thinking—and that, as a result, drunk people, who are cognitively impaired, might have trouble thinking in egalitarian ways.
According to a 2009 review, conservatives tend to support hierarchy and authority more than liberals do. Researchers found that, in terms of how the hundred and seven subjects interviewed outside the bar thought about hierarchy, drunk people gave more conservative responses while sober people gave more liberal ones.
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Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect,
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He is the author of The Bottom-up Revolution; Mastering the Emerging World of Connectivity
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Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the first of their kind. Then, when he found the process of raising people's consciousness (more...)
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