Posted on 02/23/2017 9:55:44 AM PST by Mozilla
our show will spotlight a first-of-its-kind social experiment to identify the dangerous and disruptive effect of fake news on our brains. We had high profile fake news creator Jestin Coler craft two fictional stories: one designed to prey on liberals and another on conservatives. Women read the articles, not knowing they were fake, as neuropsychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen gathered quantitative EEG assessments. The findings supported results of a functional MRI study recently published in Nature Scientific Reports, which showed how challenging a person’s political beliefs could activate the parts of the brain associated with emotion and self-identity.
A self-described liberal woman in our social experiment reported feeling sad after reading a fictional article on illegal immigrants, but revealed stronger irritation and anger when processing a fake story about a jailed climate change researcher. Simultaneous changes in her brain activity were also much greater when processing the climate change story and correlated with a strong emotional response of angst and fear. A conservative woman demonstrated opposite reactions. For her, the article on illegal immigration elicited changes in brain activity changes that you would see during a physical threat.
The women were not told that the articles were fake until they were seated on stage. What happened next was startling. First, the women understandably, but awkwardly, tried to defend why they believed the false stories, rather than expressing frustration that they had been duped. This natural human tendency was highlighted by one woman’s comment that while the news was fake, it reinforced a truth she felt about our country—so the piece was tolerable.
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Does this mean we can noe SUE CBS,NBC,ABC,CNN,MSNBC,... for Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress??
Making a case for tight msm control of what news we are permitted to hear or read. Censorship agencies for the internet?
“Does this mean we can noe SUE CBS,NBC,ABC,CNN,MSNBC,... for Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress??”
First, consider the source of this info ...
What about Fox News? A great deal of it is faux as well.
The liberal “media” is a threat to our health which is a threat to our “national security”.
With a new miracle weight loss herb on his show every week, why aren’t we all thin?
Liberals will sign up for disability benefits, since they can now claim FNDS (Fake News Depression Syndrome).
Oz is just a glorified Herbalife distributor.
Instead of looking within to find and fix the problem, they pin the blame on something outside themselves. Society, or racism, or capitalism, etc.
By doing this, they ensure that they will never be happy.
This makes them useful to the organized Left, which can always use more useful idiots.
Fake EEG Brain Scan Syndrome ?
So protect your mental health by never watching ANCNNBCBS and some Faux liberals.
Never read any article by the NY or LA Slimes, Compost, SF Gay Rhonical, WSJ supposedly about President Trump.
Then: Donate Monthly to Free Republic and don’t read posts labeled as Fake News or Not Even News. Let Trump drive the liberals and their mediots even more insane and depressed with his real news from Tweets and his controlled Press Conferences!
Is it fake news that causes problems or is the factor of whether you believe it or not?
Ow, I have a headache now.
The Truth hurts....
BAN THE TRUTH!!!!
FOR THE CHILDREN!
( sweet call of tyranny for best of “intentions” )
Yeah we can sue for inflicting damage.
Sounds like FAKE NEWS to me...
They didn't tell us which woman made that comment. I wonder why?
At first I liked him....then realized he’s just a commercial for something new...every day!!
No idea. He is now claiming that people put his name on fake advertisements.
I don't listen to local news except for the weather...I don't subscribe to any news and the only place I get news from is here and Conservative Treehouse and a couple of other places...
I don't see the gloom and doom, and when there are just so many ‘bad’ threads on here about what libs are saying about President Trump, I go to Treehouse and sing with the rest of the treepers...then I come back over here and by that time, enough people have had enough and they start finding up lifting articles...
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