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Date Posted: 09:47:47 09/13/07 Thu In reply to: Oropan 's message, "The difference is simple......" on 16:04:51 09/12/07 Wed No suprise, your statement flies in the face of reality. onservatives, rightwingers or whatever you what to >call them want to spend their own money. Leftwingers, >liberals or whatever you want to call them want to >spend other people's money. > > > > > > > > >> perhaps this is the reason left and right seldom >>agree. >> >> >>href="http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-polit >i >>cs10sep10,0,5982337.story?coll=la-home-center">http:// >w >>ww.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-politics10sep10,0,5 >9 >>82337.story?coll=la-home-center >> >>Study finds left-wing brain, right-wing brain >>template_bas >>template_bas >>Even in humdrum nonpolitical decisions, liberals and >>conservatives literally think differently, researchers >>show. >>September 10, 2007 >> >> >>Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists >>have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and >>conflict better than conservatives because of how >>their brains work. >> >>In a simple experiment being reported today in the >>journal Nature Neuroscience, scientists at New York >>University and UCLA show that political orientation is >>related to differences in how the brain processes >>information. >> >>Previous psychological studies have found that >>conservatives tend to be more structured and >>persistent in their judgments whereas liberals are >>more open to new experiences. The latest study found >>those traits are not confined to political situations >>but also influence everyday decisions. >> >>The results show "there are two cognitive styles -- a >>liberal style and a conservative style," said UCLA >>neurologist Dr. Marco Iacoboni, who was not connected >>to the latest research. >> >>Participants were college students whose politics >>ranged from "very liberal" to "very conservative." >>Scientists instructed them to tap a keyboard when an M >>appeared on a computer monitor and to refrain from >>tapping when they saw a W. >> >>M appeared four times more frequently than W, >>conditioning participants to press a key in knee-jerk >>fashion whenever they saw a letter. >> >>Each participant was wired to an electroencephalograph >>that recorded activity in the anterior cingulate >>cortex, the part of the brain that detects conflicts >>between a habitual tendency (pressing a key) and a >>more appropriate response (not pressing the key). >>Liberals had more brain activity and made fewer >>mistakes than conservatives when they saw a W, >>researchers said. Liberals and conservatives were >>equally accurate in recognizing M. >> >>Researchers got the same results when they repeated >>the experiment in reverse, asking another set of >>participants to tap when a W appeared. >> >>Frank J. Sulloway, a researcher at UC Berkeley's >>Institute of Personality and Social Research who was >>not connected to the study, said results "provided an >>elegant demonstration that individual differences on a >>conservative-liberal dimension are strongly related to >>brain activity." >> >>Analyzing the data, Sulloway said liberals were 4.9 >>times as likely as conservatives to show activity in >>the brain circuits that deal with conflicts, and 2.2 >>times as likely to score in the top half of the >>distribution for accuracy. >> >>Sulloway said the results could explain why President >>Bush demonstrated a single-minded commitment to the >>Iraq war and why some people perceived Sen. John F. >>Kerry, the liberal Massachusetts Democrat who opposed >>Bush in the 2004 presidential race, as a flip-flopper >>for changing his mind about the conflict. >> >>Based on the results, he said, liberals could be >>expected to more readily accept new social, scientific >>or religious ideas. >> >>"There is ample data from the history of science >>showing that social and political liberals indeed do >>tend to support major revolutions in science," said >>Sulloway, who has written about the history of science >>and has studied behavioral differences between >>conservatives and liberals. >> >>Lead author David Amodio, an assistant professor of >>psychology at New York University, cautioned that the >>study looked at a narrow range of human behavior and >>that it would be a mistake to conclude that one >>political orientation was better than another. The >>tendency of conservatives to block distracting >>information could be a good thing depending on the >>situation, he said. >> >>Political orientation, he noted, occurs along a >>spectrum, and positions on specific issues, such as >>taxes, are influenced by many factors, including >>education and wealth. Some liberals oppose higher >>taxes and some conservatives favor abortion rights. >> >>Still, he acknowledged that a meeting of the minds >>between conservatives and liberals looked difficult >>given the study results. >> >>"Does this mean liberals and conservatives are never >>going to agree?" Amodio asked. "Maybe it suggests one >>reason why they tend not to get along." >> >>denise.gellene@latimes.com >> >> >> >> >> >>Save/Share [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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| Careful Mo you might burst oros bubble lol . nt | Bev | 11:30:28 09/13/07 Thu |
| Re: 3 pug presidents (the bushes & reagan) are responsible for 70% of the debt ever incurred by US Govt | Duncan7 | 22:44:57 09/13/07 Thu |
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