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People’s brain activity shows their political affiliation while buying food, study shows
EurekaAlert ^ | 04/08/2025 | University of Exeter

Posted on 04/08/2025 4:06:56 PM PDT by aimhigh

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Once perfected, no Republican will be accepted into a university.
1 posted on 04/08/2025 4:06:56 PM PDT by aimhigh
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The findings suggest that political orientation might be partially rooted in basic neurocognitive mechanisms that occur even when the choices are non-political.

BS.

2 posted on 04/08/2025 4:09:21 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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What if I only eat zee bugs?


3 posted on 04/08/2025 4:09:27 PM PDT by dforest
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THIS IS THE KIND OF CRAP DEMS LOVE THROWING $$$$ AT.


4 posted on 04/08/2025 4:10:31 PM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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But the study was flawed. 80% of the leftists showed not enough brain activity to register.


5 posted on 04/08/2025 4:11:01 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Another study supposedly “proving” we’re “born that way” and “there’s no such thing as free will”.

What is this nonsense about milk and eggs not being branded? I only buy Mayfield’s dairy products (they really are better, to my taste) and Vital Farms pastured eggs (which I think are best). I don’t even have to think about it. Just grab the Mayfield’s and the VF.


6 posted on 04/08/2025 4:18:41 PM PDT by CatHerd (Whoever said "all's fair in love and war" probably never participated in either.)
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"... buy free-range eggs..."

I myself prefer free range eggplant.

7 posted on 04/08/2025 4:26:15 PM PDT by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC (Unity? Of course! I pledge to respect your President as much as you respected mine the past 4 years.)
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they were in non branded cartons


8 posted on 04/08/2025 4:30:29 PM PDT by Chickensoup
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It’s kinda obvious who is a leftist when you go to Trader Joes...


9 posted on 04/08/2025 4:32:07 PM PDT by Beowulf9 ( )
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The lobotomy scars are another good indicator of liberalism.


10 posted on 04/08/2025 4:32:24 PM PDT by Mean Daddy
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This sounds like a project funded by USAID.


11 posted on 04/08/2025 4:33:35 PM PDT by Bernard (Issue an annual budget. And Issue a federal government balance sheet. Let's see what we got.)
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Stalking them in their natural habitat is a mental and physical challenge....


12 posted on 04/08/2025 4:34:22 PM PDT by txeagle
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I purchased a small cluster of Tomatoes On the Vine recently.
There were five tomatoes on that one vine, and each individual tomato had some kind of sticker on it showing a Bar Code. I don’t want to be bothered pulling itty bitty tags off my fresh produce. Will grocery stores ever go back to not slapping a paper label on every piece?


13 posted on 04/08/2025 4:36:52 PM PDT by lee martell
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I thought this was already established with Birkenstocks?


14 posted on 04/08/2025 4:42:29 PM PDT by JZelle
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I was surprised to learn that Democrats have any brain activity.


15 posted on 04/08/2025 5:01:42 PM PDT by Savage Beast (There's a Light over the Whole World. I just want everybody to be happy, healthy and well. --DJT)
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The person who buys red meat versus a person who buys tofu might indicate political leaning.


16 posted on 04/08/2025 5:05:01 PM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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I read the opening, started thinking about it in that part of my noodle that I call “the lower 40.” It will think about anything, indiscriminately, and go hmmm.
Then I wondered, when I shop, can I tell who’s a conservative and who’s a liberal? Pictured some folks — sloppy Walmartians, tattooed persons, old ladies, people cussing, people with little kids, people with support animals...
Nope, can’t really sort them out politically.
Finally the higher points of my IQ kicked in, and hollered, “Who cares?”
So, how much funding did this bunch get for their silly investigation? And what can anyone do with the information? Birth another algorithm, perhaps?


17 posted on 04/08/2025 5:08:49 PM PDT by Buttons12 ( )
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Conclusion

We found that when making non-hypothetical, economic decisions about food, Republicans show greater neural activity than Democrats in specific regions of the brain, and Democrats have greater neural activity than Republicans in other regions, yet the ultimate food decisions are not significantly different between the two groups. There is no specific conservative, liberal, Republican, or Democrat “grocery shopping” region of the brain, which means political decisions, economic decisions, and day-to-day decisions such as food choices must be made using the available decision “hardware.”

I can't make sense of any of this. They say there are differences then they say there aren't differences.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-the-life-sciences/article/differential-brain-activations-between-democrats-and-republicans-when-considering-food-purchases/1A50B5BC2181458FE465EA6B1B28DE98

18 posted on 04/08/2025 5:10:27 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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Wrong. I’m eating Trader Joe’s dark chocolate orange sticks now. We go every once in a while, I’m a Patriot.


19 posted on 04/08/2025 5:24:19 PM PDT by Shady (The Force of Liberty must prevail for the sake of our Children and Grandchildren...)
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It sorta sounds like conservatives use the rational, male part of their brains to choose which item to buy, while lefties use the more emotional, feminine part of their fevered noggins.


20 posted on 04/08/2025 5:30:23 PM PDT by Blurb2350 (posted from my 1500-watt blow dryer)
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