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Darren Schreiber, a political neuroscientist at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom, first performed brain scans on 82 people participating in a risky gambling task, one in which holding out for more money increases your possible rewards, but also your possible losses. Later, cross-referencing the findings with the participants' publicly available political party registration information, Schreiber noticed something astonishing: Republicans, when they took the same gambling risk, were activating a different part of the brain than Democrats.

Republicans were using the right amygdala, the center of the brain's threat response system. Democrats, in contrast, were using the insula, involved in internal monitoring of one's feelings. Amazingly, Schreiber and his colleagues write that this test predicted 82.9 percent of the study subjects' political party choices—considerably better, they note, than a simple model that predicts your political party affiliation based on the affiliation of your parents.

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Originally posted by RionaEire:
Its humorous because the discussion that results from studies of differences in the brains of conservatives and liberals, even with a study like yours that doesn't draw blatent conclusions, are predictable, if this discussion goes on long enough people come in and say things that sound quite scientific, sometimes they are valid, but those people can't stick to that, they inherrantly start assigning judgement and value of varying kinds to those findings, then things start degrading because you know that people like to sound scientific, and again may have some validity in their findings, but their personal bias gets into the discussion, they make value judgements etc. and everything degrades into insults and accusations and everyone's hackles go up, and the people who provoke the most hackles seem to be the people who are trying to sound objective and removed.

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No, this post doesn't represent objective and removed, I'm the type of person who probably has never been objective or removed about anything in my life, verdict's still out on whether that's good or bad, its probably not all that good.

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Its interesting, we've known each other for a while.

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I'm someone who is conservative about some things and more liberal about others.

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It depends on what we're discussing. As such I see myself as an independent, because I swing right on some things and left on others. I'm steriotypically conservative about gay marriage for instance, but I'm pretty liberal in regards to the fact that I feel that government's job includes funding social programs and making sure people have what they need in regards to disability services, mental health, etc. etc. I'm also very liberal about how all children _must have health insurance, period and its the government's job to make sure that happens. All children _must be given an education that is condusive to their needs and _must be given the oppertunity and ability to achieve to the best of their abilities, public school is absolutely namditory, period, and those schools must have the things they need to succede. So I'm all over the board really. Regarding fiscal conservativism and fiscal liberalism, I don't know enough to have an informed opinion there, money management beyond my personal spending choices isn't my forte, though maybe in some ways the government could use someone like that, who hasn't been indoctrinated either way regarding finance.

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And I don't in the least bit ignore facts. To the contrary, I am all about facts.

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There there little rappy. Soon mommy will come by and wipe away your tears and tell you what a great little boy you are.

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There there little rappy. Soon mommy will come by and wipe away your tears and tell you what a great little boy you are.

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Promise ? That's something I'd dearly like to see happen.

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Originally posted by 1kiki:
There there little rappy. Soon mommy will come by and wipe away your tears and tell you what a great little boy you are.

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Promise ? That's something I'd dearly like to see happen.

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That explians a lot.

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