Posted on 12/30/2010 7:51:19 AM PST by FredJake
If you're a conservative, it might be your brain's fault.
So says British scientists who scanned the brains of two members of the British Parliament and about 90 students.
Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent for the UK Telegraph, reported Wednesday that those with conservative views have larger amygdalas, the area of the brain associated with anxiety and fear. They also have a smaller anterior cingulate, an area at the front of the brain associated with courage and optimism.
Prof Geraint Rees, of the University College London and head researcher for the study, told the Telegraph:
"We were very surprised to find that there was an area of the brain that we could predict political attitude.
"It is very surprising because it does suggest there is something about political attitude that is encoded in our brain structure through our experience or that there is something in our brain structure that determines or results in political attitude."
According to the Telegraph, researchers said the size of those two areas of the brain were directly related to the political viewpoints of those studied, but could not say if the volunteer's brains were born that way, or if they had developed over time since all the volunteers were adults.
(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...
“it might be your brain’s fault.”
Nope — no bias there.
At least we HAVE a brain.
They need to do some of that dynamic MRI brain studies to see what is really happening. This structure stuff is pure Phrenology.
What an idiot.
I was an atheistic communist sympathizer from my college years until my early 40s.
When I became a Christian at 43, I began to look at the world very differently.
As Winston Churchill once put it, “If you’re not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative at forty you have no brain.”
and British ones at that.
Of course the “article” does not say if the entire brain was bigger.
In a related story, researchers have concluded that Liberalism is a mental disease cause by not having a brain.....
Courage? Who volunteers to go into war situations endangering their own lives? Not liberals. This study is ridiculous
Liberals will do anything to try and invalidate conservative thought. I think this started as some kind of a joke, but it’s just a bit creepy to me. To think they came up with this after studying 92 entire brains...
I wonder if these sicko,s have thought of studying each others brains?
I dunno. There are a lot of conservatives who are volunteer members of our military who have courage in spades. As for fear and anxiety, isn’t that what causes liberals to be uncomfortable with the chaos of freedom and the competition it fosters?
And jews have hooked noses. History repeats itself.
“If you are in your 20’s and are not a Liberal, then you have no heart. If you are in your 40’s and are still a Liberal, then you have no brain.”
Excellent points. It takes tiny-brained conservative logical thinking to make sense of this article. We must be extra efficient with our diminutive lobes.
Your cartoon chart is more scientific than the Britt’s “study”.
Frankly any study that comes out of Britain is suspect.
East Anglia as an example.
I could wile away the hours
Conferrin’ with the flowers
Consultin’ with the rain
And my head I’d be scratchin’
While my thoughts were busy hatchin’
If I only had a brain
I’d unravel any riddle
For any individ’le
In trouble or in pain
(Dorothy)
With the thoughts you’d be thinkin’
You could be another Lincoln
If you only had a brain
(Scarecrow)
Oh, I would tell you why
The ocean’s near the shore
I could think of things I never thunk before
And then I’d sit and think some more
I would not be just a nuffin’
My head all full of stuffin’
My heart all full of pain
I would dance and be merry
Life would be a ding-a-derry
If I only had a brain
[ Liberals worry about global warming hundreds of years in the future, killing of wolves, some obscure fish becoming extinct, some future point in time when someone, somewhere might not have access to a service or freebie.]
Liberals do not care about the above invented problems, they just cling to “reasons” to stop capitalism and reduce the human significance in all creation.
This is about one step away from saying that Conservatives are three/fifths human.
“Progressives” want to believe, more than anything else in the world, that those who do not think as they do are lesser, inferior beings.
And, as is the bent of all “progressives”, they use government and (pseudo)science to make policies to enforce their world views.
Cattle cars filled with conservatives heading for re-education camps, morally and politically justified by “science”, is a “progressive” wet dream.
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