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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
Sat Aug 17, 2013, 08:33 AM Aug 2013

Red Brain, Blue Brain

"It turns out Democrats and Republicans really do think differently.

In a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE, a group of political scientists and neuroscientists have found that conservatives and liberals use different parts of their mind when making risky decisions, and that these differences in brain function can be used to predict party affiliation."

* Schreiber says that the study’s findings are consistent with similar studies that have been done around the world. “We are not overlapping in our results, but we are definitely looking at different parts of the same elephant,” he says. In a study published this month in the American Journal of Political Science, researchers at Brown University found that people who have more fearful dispositions were more inclined to be politically conservative."

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/02/19/red-brain-blue-brain-are-there-neurological-differences-between-democrats-and-republicans/

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0052970;jsessionid=29F12502AB5AF1CEC35B27DAE346AA56

In other words conservatives are wimps

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Red Brain, Blue Brain (Original Post) damnedifIknow Aug 2013 OP
And then there's my brain. hobbit709 Aug 2013 #1
Dude, that must have been some of Owsley's best. Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 #2
Owsley was good but Sandoz was better. hobbit709 Aug 2013 #3
But that dried up in about '64, didn't it? Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 #5
I had some the summer of 66, while it was still legal. hobbit709 Aug 2013 #6
You're right about the dates. Jackpine Radical Aug 2013 #7
Too many purple brains for my taste mick063 Aug 2013 #4

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
7. You're right about the dates.
Sat Aug 17, 2013, 10:00 AM
Aug 2013

For some reason I thought it was outlawed in '64, and was illegal during the Summer of Love ('66).

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