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Liberals Are From Mars, Conservatives Are From Uranus

September 11, 2007 By TXsharon

A new study shows that our brains work differently. Liberals are more open, tolerant of ambiguity and conflict while conservatives are structured and persistent.

Scientists at New York University and UCLA conducted tests on college students ranging from very conservative to very liberal. They tapped a keyboard when the letter M appeared and did not tap when W appeared.

M appeared four times more frequently than W, conditioning participants to press a key in knee-jerk fashion whenever they saw a letter.

Each participant was wired to an electroencephalograph that recorded activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, the part of the brain that detects conflicts between a habitual tendency (pressing a key) and a more appropriate response (not pressing the key). Liberals had more brain activity and made fewer mistakes than conservatives when they saw a W, researchers said. Liberals and conservatives were equally accurate in recognizing M.

It seems that liberals are all about progress or moving forward and conservatives are constipated. 😉 It doesn’t seem too far a stretch to see that the conservative need to preserve the status quo could lend them to be more easily controlled by fear.

and don’t forget this study.

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Sharon Wilson is considered a leading citizen expert on the impacts of shale oil and gas extraction. She is the go-to person whether it’s top EPA officials from D.C., national and international news networks, or residents facing the shock of eminent domain and the devastating environmental effects of natural gas development in their backyards.

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  1. Lu Cifer says

    September 11, 2007 at 4:20 am

    GREAT TITLE!
    “Y am be you is hate uhMuriKah? Y am be you is wants the terrist two win?”
    I get SO sick of their crap I just want to do like Edward R. Murrow (sic?) and “go to the nearest window, open it and say as loud as you can I’M AS MAD AS HELL AM I’M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!”
    OOOH!
    Anyone wanna place bets if the BU$Hitler Crime Family will DARE to pull off ANOTHER False Flag operation today!?

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