Posted on 06/17/2014 7:31:51 PM PDT by DogByte6RER
Is There a Brain Region Associated with a Belief in Social Justice?
Some people believe that we could live in a just world where everybody gets what they deserve. Others believe that's impossible. Now, neuroscientists say they have evidence that the "just world hypothesis" is a cognitive bias that's connected with a specific part of the brain.
This does not mean there is a "social justice center" in your brain. What neurologist Michael Schaefer and colleagues discovered is that there is a slightly different pattern of electrical impulses shooting through the brains of people who believe in a just world. They asked people whether they believed in a just world, then put them in an fMRI machine and then asked them to ponder scenarios where people broke from social norms or conformed to them.
Previously, other neuroscientists had identified brain areas that become active when people perceive norm violations. So the group knew that if those areas were lit up in the fMRI, all they were seeing was a response to norm violations in general. But what they found was that a few additional brain regions became active in people who believe in a just world. So they now believe there could be some physiological component to a belief in social justice.
(Excerpt) Read more at io9.com ...
BEHOLD! A healthy brain.
I always say, I have a heart as big as the galaxy, but I’m callin’ BS on this.
The phlogiston flows through the aether, directly affecting the magnetic waves emanating from the seventh chakra. This is most evident in the shape of the skull, as any phrenologist can tell you.
Social Justice?
Nonsense.
Yeah, its embedded deeply in the rectum.
I don’t know that there is a brain region - more like a brain vacuum.
It’s at the other end of the spinal cord.
The technical term for it is Sh!t for brains.
“Yeah, its embedded deeply in the rectum.”
Well-stated, ‘creek. (my thoughts exactly.) Regressives (socialists/totalitarians) brains in the rectum and in our rectums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IfzRf1DtxQ
Have to have a brain before there can be said region
Beat me to it!
I’m surprised this article didn’t try to link this with an evolutionary advantage as so many others do. Think back on all the articles about altruism, racism, monogamy vs polygamy, machismo, theft, sex for goods, etc, that have been said to be evolutionarily imbedded in our psyches.
“Social justice.”. A “just world.”. “Everyone getting what he deserves.”
Nice phrases. But who gets to decide what “justice” is, and what each person “deserves?”. I prefer to let the free market decide those things, not some self-appointed nanny.
BEEEENGO!
Actually, brain studies have been done that show certain areas of the brain are activated differently in different types of people. One area is associated with people whose preferred behavior is rule based and tribal. The other area is called Utilitarian and relates to behavior that is based on logic and inquiry. Roughly tends to relate to more conservative and more liberal mind sets. Or to more religious or more scientific orientations.
No.....the technical term is called “hipster”. ;)
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=9B3Dwmxo4OMhttp://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3LNfJh9lGUU
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=9B3Dwmxo4OM
So “liberalism is a mental disorder” after all ....?
321.0 SPLAT Liberal Cerebral Defenestration (LCD) or Liberal Acquired Brain Absence (LABA) due to keeping mind so far open that brain falls out. Initial and subsequent encounters.
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