>... I hold out hope
> that one day.... they will understand.
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Study Predicts Political Beliefs With 83 Percent Accuracy Scans show that
liberals and conservatives use different parts of the brain when they take
risks, helping to pinpoint the political party a person prefers By Marina Koren
smithsonianmag.com
February 14, 2013
If you want to know people's politics, tradition said to study their parents.
In fact, the party affiliation of someone's parents can predict the child's
political leanings about around 70 percent of the time.
But new research, published yesterday in the journal PLOS ONE, suggests what
mom and dad think isn't the endgame when it comes to shaping a person's
political identity. Ideological differences between partisans may reflect
distinct neural processes, and they can predict who's right and who's left of
center with 82.9 percent accuracy, outperforming the "your parents pick your
party" model. It also out-predicts another neural model based on differences in
brain structure, which distinguishes liberals from conservatives with 71.6
percent accuracy.
[...]
The idea that the brains of Democrats and Republicans may be hard-wired to
their beliefs is not new. Previous research has shown that during MRI scans,
areas linked to broad social connectedness, which involves friends and the
world at large, light up in Democrats' brains. Republicans, on the other hand,
show more neural activity in parts of the brain associated with tight social
connectedness, which focuses on family and country. [...]
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