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Date Posted: 00:15:21 09/15/07 Sat In reply to: Mo' Green 's message, "Are you" on 09:55:09 09/14/07 Fri Just a statement of fact. You never get your way. LOL >>Ah, but they keep getting elected. >Trying to prove how gullible you are? >> >>>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-po >l >>i >>>t >>>>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 ] |