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Date Posted: 11:30:28 09/13/07 Thu In reply to: Mo' Green 's message, "3 pug presidents (the bushes & reagan) are responsible for 70% of the debt ever incurred by US Govt" on 09:47:47 09/13/07 Thu >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-poli >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 ] |
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| Re: 3 pug presidents (the bushes & reagan) are responsible for 70% of the debt ever incurred by US Govt | Duncan7 | 22:44:57 09/13/07 Thu |
| Are you | Mo' Green | 09:55:09 09/14/07 Fri |
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