Methodology : The Economist survey was conducted by YouGov using a nationally representative sample of 1, US Adult Citizens interviewed online between June 26 - 29, This sample was weighted according to gender, age, race, and education based on the American Community Survey, conducted by the US Bureau of the Census, as well as Presidential vote, registration status, geographic region, and news interest.
The margin of error is approximately 3. Deals Expand submenu Deals Collapse submenu Deals. Your cart. Close Cart. Patriotism Makes for a Stronger Nation The act of patriotism and feeling patriotic are things which will make for a stronger nation.
You also may like to read Patriotic Favorites. With the advent of brain scanning technologies and modern genetics, scientists have spotted the immensely powerful psychological alchemy that goes on just below the surface of our consciousness. These studies demonstrate that group identification is both innate and almost immediate. For a recent experiment, Van Bavel and collaborators took a page from Tajfel and randomly assigned volunteers to one of two groups.
Then they asked those volunteers to climb into an fMRI machine and view images of ingroup and outgroup members. When shown pictures of members of their group, the subjects demonstrated greater activation in the amygdala, an ancient brain structure associated with emotional valence, than when presented with nonmembers. Van Bavel also found participants, when viewing ingroup members, experience heightened activity in the fusiform face area of the visual cortex—a special area for identifying faces—and also in the ventral medial frontal cortex, an area thought to play a key role in assigning value.
These responses were remarkably immediate: Show someone pictures of people and you can often guess who is in the ingroup and who is in the outgroup just by studying the brain activation patterns.
Other work suggests these tendencies—this blurring of the lines between self and other, a feeling that benefits to the group are benefits to the individual—are innate, perhaps even honed on the crucible of natural selection. Stephanie Preston, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, notes that insights can be drawn about innate group responses throughout the animal kingdom. To understand human behavior, she has studied wolf packs, tribes of chimpanzees, sled dogs, even fish.
One common characteristic is that emotions appear to be contagious, and in a group setting can spread rapidly.
Preston explains people identify more deeply with those in their ingroup than those who are not. P sychologists have spotted a distinction between the ways that people identify with groups. Mina Cikara, a psychologist who runs the Harvard Intergroup Neuroscience Lab, says there is an important distinction between patriotism and nationalism.
Whereas patriotism is something everyone should possess as a virtue. Some scientists have even begun to demonstrate we might have a genetic tendency to experience patriotism or nationalism, and that different genes might predispose us to those sentiments. Lewis compared the attitudes of pairs of German monozygotic identical twins, who shared percent of the same DNA, dizygotic fraternal twins who share 50 percent of the same DNA, and 87 unmatched twins reared together.
Since both members in each of the pairs had been raised in the same environment, the study design allowed Lewis to look at the role of genetics in producing differences, largely ruling out environmental factors. In one study, Lewis specifically examined patriotism, nationalism, and prejudice and attempted to quantify genetic influence.
The evidence was clear: Identical twins were far more likely to have identical attitudes than fraternal twins. He concluded 50 percent of the variation within a culturally similar group of individuals can be attributed to genetic factors. It was a mathematical analysis so Lewis could only quantify correlations between answers—but he was able to demonstrate that the connection between patriotism and nationalism was not particularly strong.
Many researchers have demonstrated this, she notes, by splitting people into groups in the lab, endowing them with money, and offering them several options. However, it also showed that Americans, also have different views on what it means to be patriotic. The Mood of the Nation Poll is the only nationally representative poll that relies primarily on open-ended questions — allowing Americans to tell us, in their own words, about the issues of the day. Our summer poll added a special section on patriotism where we asked 1, online respondents,.
Patriotism means many things to many people. How about you? Can you tell us in your own words what being patriotic means to you?
The answers were wide ranging and touched on many topics. The most common themes concerned love of country and demonstrating respect for its symbols, the Constitution, and the men and women who have served our country in uniform.
For example, a 40 year-old woman from Maryland told us that patriotism means.
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