Can a simple test determine whether you're more left wing or more right wing?
According to a recently published study, researchers believed they've discovered a simple trick that can be used to determine a person's political leaning - and it's all down to the kind of words they prefer to use.
Before we tell you more - can we tell whether you're on the left or right? We've given you five pairs of sentences below. From each pair, pick the sentence you'd be more likely to say.
Did we get it right?
Researchers at the University of Kent believe that right-wingers and left-wingers tend to construct sentences in different ways - and that conseratives have a greater predilection for using nouns.
The study drew on research carried out in Poland, Lebanon, and the USA, looking at the language used in political speeches.
They found that conservatives tend to refer to things by their names, rather than in terms of their features - EG saying someone is "an optimist" rather than "optimistic".
The research team, led by Dr Aleksandra Cichocka, suggested that conservatives prefer the use of nouns over adjectives as they "preserve stability, familiarity and tradition", and "elicit clearer and more definite perceptions of reality than other parts of speech," satisfying the desire for "structure and certainty" that's more prevalent among conservatives than it is among liberals.