-=> Janis Kracht wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 >...  I hold out hope
 > that one day.... they will understand.

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 JK> Study Predicts Political Beliefs With 83 Percent Accuracy Scans
 JK> show that liberals and conservatives use different parts of the
 JK> brain when they take risks, helping to pinpoint the political
 JK> party a person prefers By Marina Koren smithsonianmag.com
 JK> February 14, 2013

 JK> If you want to know people's politics, tradition said to study
 JK> their parents. In fact, the party affiliation of someone's
 JK> parents can predict the child's political leanings about around
 JK> 70 percent of the time.

 JK> But new research, published yesterday in the journal PLOS ONE,
 JK> suggests what mom and dad think isn't the endgame when it comes
 JK> to shaping a person's political identity. Ideological differences
 JK> between partisans may reflect distinct neural processes, and they
 JK> can predict who's right and who's left of center with 82.9
 JK> percent accuracy, outperforming the "your parents pick your
 JK> party" model. It also out-predicts another neural model based on
 JK> differences in brain structure, which distinguishes liberals from
 JK> conservatives with 71.6 percent accuracy. [...]
 JK> The idea that the brains of Democrats and Republicans may be
 JK> hard-wired to their beliefs is not new. Previous research has
 JK> shown that during MRI scans, areas linked to broad social
 JK> connectedness, which involves friends and the world at large,
 JK> light up in Democrats' brains. Republicans, on the other hand,
 JK> show more neural activity in parts of the brain associated with
 JK> tight social connectedness, which focuses on family and country.
 JK> [...] =======cut here===

Very interesting and informative.  Makes perfect sense to me, and 
I can certainly say that I care more about family and country than 
I do about "social connectedness".

Thanks for sharing that.



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