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Nimatzo
iChihuaha
Fri Jan 06 14:51:40
Summary
Substantial differences exist in the cognitive styles of liberals and conservatives on psychological measures [1]. Variability in political attitudes reflects genetic influences and their interaction with environmental factors [2, 3]. Recent work has shown a correlation between liberalism and conflict-related activity measured by event-related potentials originating in the anterior cingulate cortex [4]. Here we show that this functional correlate of political attitudes has a counterpart in brain structure. In a large sample of young adults, we related self-reported political attitudes to gray matter volume using structural MRI. We found that greater liberalism was associated with increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex, whereas greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of the right amygdala. These results were replicated in an independent sample of additional participants. Our findings extend previous observations that political attitudes reflect differences in self-regulatory conflict monitoring [4] and recognition of emotional faces [5] by showing that such attitudes are reflected in human brain structure. Although our data do not determine whether these regions play a causal role in the formation of political attitudes, they converge with previous work [4, 6] to suggest a possible link between brain structure and psychological mechanisms that mediate political attitudes.

http://www.../article/pii/S0960982211002892

williamthebastard
Member
Sat Jan 07 08:26:09
"The right amygdala is more strongly associated with negative emotions such as fear and sadness"

"The anterior cingulate cortex is involved in certain higher-level functions, such as attention allocation,[1] reward anticipation, decision-making,[2] ethics and morality,[3] impulse control (e.g. performance monitoring and error detection),"
Nimatzo
iChihuaha
Sat Jan 07 10:43:10
Predictable.

I wouldn’t read too much into that since outcome is counterfactual to conclusion you draw from associations, women are higher in negative emotion than men, women are more likely to be liberal than, liberal men and women (in the US) more likely to have mental health diagnos.
williamthebastard
Member
Sat Jan 07 11:07:51
No, we shouldnt take the predictable study you posted too seriously, all of those kinds of studies are fraught with chicken/egg and other problems.
williamthebastard
Member
Sat Jan 07 11:08:58
Mechanical engineering approaches to understanding the human spirit is an exercise in stupidity and Muskianity.
Nimatzo
iChihuaha
Sat Jan 07 11:51:07
No that is not it. You should not make these feeble attempts to inference normative values from MRI scans. The interesting this is that political bias can be seen in brain structure.

The irony being that you always end these little moronic excursions steeped in total ignorance, by accusing everyone else of making simplistic conclusions and mechanistic approaches to understanding things and stuff.

TC also has a habit of doing this. "Stop swearing you stupid idiot". You wouldn't happen to know him, would you?
Nimatzo
iChihuaha
Sat Jan 07 12:04:32
What bothers me WTB is that here I am correcting some major misconceptions you, all of which point in the same direction "perfect scientific illiteracy" and the person is not internalizing any of it, let alone waking up to the awareness that the misinformation he is preaching is the foundation of his maladaptive philosophy and outlook.

Do you understand? All your cynical strawmen be they in astronomy, economy or the moral implication of MRI scans are trivially wrong, and it is upon these misconceptions (conspiracy logic) that your entire world view is built.

Your entire life is a lie.
Habebe
Member
Sun Jan 08 10:22:07
"The irony being that you always end these little moronic excursions steeped in total ignorance, by accusing everyone else of making simplistic conclusions and mechanistic approaches to understanding things and stuff."

Accurate.
Habebe
Member
Sun Jan 08 10:24:53
I actually pity WTB. When you read his non political posts and his aspirations, it comes across as a sad and lonely existence.
Jebbebiah Wilkins
Member
Sun Jan 08 10:29:14
I'm interested in research about the right and the left testicle. Which with testicle should I procreate if I want a genius son?

I found a way to tie off one testicle before ejaculating, so this is a practically relevant question to me.
Habebe
Member
Sun Jan 08 11:28:47
"Which with testicle should I procreate if I want a genius son?"

Two men can not make a baby.I dont care what those cold weirdos have been telling you.
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