To: pa_dweller
I plan to post my infrequent articles on the short bus forum AKA general, since they are mainly not political news but have general interest. I foresee the short bus forum becoming the main forum very soon, and the news/political forum becoming vestigial except during election night and the ensuing court battles.
2 posted on 3/15/02 5:09 PM Pacific by RightWhale
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To: RightWhale
These scientists who work on this sort of sh-t, must have some real deeply seeded issues with humanity.
3 posted on 3/15/02 5:15 PM Pacific by godisright
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To: RightWhale
These scientists who work on this sort of sh-t, must have some real deeply seeded issues with humanity.
4 posted on 3/15/02 5:15 PM Pacific by godisright
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some real deeply seeded issues with humanity
Some do, no doubt; I wouldn't want to be around when they are visiting their psychoanalyst. Or they are seeking the limelight [and the shortcut to recognition/funding.]
5 posted on 3/15/02 5:20 PM Pacific by RightWhale
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But when these individuals were presented with pictures of black people, images of some them revealed intense amygdala activation - a sure sign they were feeling fearful or anxious. Pen-and-paper psychological tests designed to reveal innate racism uncovered some participants who suppressed anti-black feelings - the same individuals whose amygdalas were most active during tests. They claimed not to be racist, but their brains gave the game away .
Maybe they were just liberals, and the brain activity was merely detecting "liberal guilt".
6 posted on 3/15/02 5:20 PM Pacific by Dan Day
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Lying politicians, spin doctors and cheating sportsmen (and husbands) will suddenly find life uncomfortable.
I saw TV coverage of research that was being done quite a while ago (like 5-8 years or so) about a similar use for "brain activity" scans.
Apparently one part of the brain lights up pretty clearly whenever an act of recognition occur. The researchers were saying that with some refinement, it could be used as an unbeatable lie detector. For example, show a crime suspect a photo of the crime scene or victim. Someone who was not involved would register no recognition, but the criminal himself could not help but recognize the scene of the crime. And so on.
I never heard what became of the research. <tinfoil>Maybe it's been classified </tinfoil>
7 posted on 3/15/02 5:25 PM Pacific by Dan Day
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To: godisright
These scientists who work on this sort of sh-t, must have some real deeply seeded issues with humanity.
I think they're just curious, and driven to figure out how things work which are currently not understood.
That's why most people who are scientists and/or researchers choose the professions that they do. It's not any more complicated than that.
8 posted on 3/15/02 5:26 PM Pacific by Dan Day
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Nevermind.