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Article: Exposure to national flag brings moderation of political attitudes
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- The Hindustan Times
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- December 28, 2007
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Washington, Dec. 28 -- Viewing the national flag generally arouses extreme nationalistic and patriotic feelings. However, according to an Israeli study, exposing people to a subliminal image of the national flag moderates such political attitudes.
The study, led by psychologist Ran Hassin at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, revealed that subliminal presentation of a national symbol affects not only political attitudes, but also voting intentions and actual voting in general elections.
The findings were based on a set of experiments, which examined the effects of the subliminal presentation of the national flag on ...