I wish I could see their full study — Paywalls hiding publicly-funded research… I just love it.
The next sentence further says, “Rather than studying unconscious responses as the ‘real’ predispositions, alignment between conscious and unconscious responses promise deeper insights in the emotional roots of ideology.”
I’d need to see the study but it might suggest that there is indeed a subconscious difference in response but how that’s mediated by other parts of the brain either remains the same or differs?