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"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 studys 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
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Jackpine Radical
(45,274 posts)For some reason I thought it was outlawed in '64, and was illegal during the Summer of Love ('66).
mick063
(2,424 posts)n/t