The Liberal Brain vs The Conservative Brain

Colpy

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As people get older they become more conservative and begin to believe in a god....reality begins to slip away.

Btw, Ralph Klien has been diagnosed with dementia.

"If you are not conservative by the age of forty, you have no brain"

It takes a longer time than previously thought for the brain stem to become fully connected. Especially in men. :)

Poor Ralph has passed the height of his intellectual power, and is sliding down the back hill. Nothing worse than watching an intelligent, lively man slip away.....my father died of Alzheimer's in 2003.

That's interesting. What Kanai and his colleagues were looking at was the correlated brain structures according to political orientation in young adults. What they didn't find was whether political affiliation or brain structure were the cause of the other.

Perhaps now, your voting pattern or rather lack of a pattern is related to your upbringing. If you are examining the complexities and uncertainties surrounding the choice you have, that's precisely what Kanai et al. found. I imagine that the next line of inquiry would be to examine a population that would have regular MRI scans of the brain, to track development of the different areas of the brain.

It's interesting to think about; I always enjoy investigations of nature versus nurture.

I am always surprised at how great a role nature plays.......

We, in the modern world, have been led to believe nurture rules.....we have been lied to.
 

Cliffy

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I am always surprised at how great a role nature plays.......

We, in the modern world, have been led to believe nurture rules.....we have been lied to.
Yo are right about being lied to, I just don't think many have really figured out which lies are which or what the truth is.

BTW, being conservative or liberal require having no mind.
 

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If it's the cons with an over developed fear sensory, then why is the left pandering to the fears of their voter base?
 

Tonington

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I am always surprised at how great a role nature plays.......

We, in the modern world, have been led to believe nurture rules.....we have been lied to.

Maybe in the past, I've grown up in a time when genetics is front and center, and I'd say that people are too willing to accept genetics when often it's genetics that loads the gun, and the trigger is environment.

Studies of mono-zygotic twins really help to tease it out.
 

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If it's the cons with an over developed fear sensory, then why is the left pandering to the fears of their voter base?

They aren't pandering to their base ;) The base is the vote they can count on, presumably the fear tactics would work on more conservative minded voters. The folk who haven't made up their mind.

And this is new research:D
 

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Fear is the only motivating factor of all politics and religion. He who instills the most fear wins.
I think you're right.

They aren't pandering to their base ;) The base is the vote they can count on, presumably the fear tactics would work on more conservative minded voters. The folk who haven't made up their mind.

And this is new research:D
I think Cliffy's answer was more objective.
 

Tonington

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I think Cliffy's answer was more objective.

I can show easily that it's not. Bill Casey was a politician, and he wasn't motivated by fear. If he was, he would have voted with his party when the budget clearly wasn't in the best interest of his constituents.

As far as religion goes, show me how the Buddhists instill the most fear to get the number of followers that they have.
 

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Buddhism still has evil spirits and karma will get you. Some people, no matter what their religion, are good because it is within their nature, most people are good because they fear the consequences.
 

CDNBear

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I can show easily that it's not. Bill Casey was a politician, and he wasn't motivated by fear. If he was, he would have voted with his party when the budget clearly wasn't in the best interest of his constituents.
Ahh yes, take the broad sweep and narrow it. But way to prove my point about the OP in the process.

Thanx Ton.

As far as religion goes, show me how the Buddhists instill the most fear to get the number of followers that they have.
I'm sure you'll argue it, but Buddhism is more a philosophy, than a religion.
 

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"If you are not conservative by the age of forty, you have no brain"

It takes a longer time than previously thought for the brain stem to become fully connected. Especially in men. :)


Wait a minute......

If I take this.....




and overlay it with this....



I'll be damned.
 

Colpy

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Wait a minute......

If I take this.....




and overlay it with this....



I'll be damned.

At least I've got one, and it functions. :) (a brain, that is)

Very little evidence of that from your side lately........

Oh, BTW.......Liberals (those of the upper-case "L") are afraid of guns, armed citizens, free speech, critical thinking, free votes, Conservatives, our own history, the environment, the United States, and on and on and on........basically Liberals are afraid of anything with an opinion or that isn't a brain-dead, latte-sucking, urban statist.

Somehow I think this study is a little flawed.
 

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