Underlying psychological traits could explain why political satire tends to be liberal, suggests new research (n=305), which found that political conservatives tend to score lower on a measure of need for cognition, which is related to their lack of appreciation for irony and exaggeration.

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Underlying psychological traits could explain why political satire tends to be liberal, suggests new research (n=305), which found that political conservatives tend to score lower on a measure of need for cognition, which is related to their lack of appreciation for irony and exaggeration.