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hard to say if that was worse than the roach. tough call
Fear creates conservatives .
Understanding creates liberals.
so what does your fear of gun owners signify?
Give a man a fish and he eats for a day.
Teach a man to fish and he spends all of his time fishing while you take care of his woman.
Indeed, watching the brain's reaction to a single disgusting image was sufficient to guess each subject's political orientation. Montague said in the press release, "I haven't seen such clean predictive results in any other functional imaging experiments in our lab or others." <snip>
How you react to this photo reveals your political beliefs - CBS News
Perhaps relying on a "study" of 83 people to come to a definitive conclusion that "conservatives focus more on the negative" is why many conservatives, myself included, are very skeptical of junk "science".
Just from a personal perspective, I don't find any pictures of nature to be "disgusting" - the odder nature is, the more fascinating I find it even if often it scares the hell out of me. The insect in the pic didn't disgust me at all in its depiction - it seems beautiful and fascinating and yet if it was crawling on my face when I woke from sleep I might find it totally disgusting.
In this article, we argue that one organizing element of the many differences between liberals and conservatives is the nature of their physiological and psychological responses to features of the environment that are negative. Compared with liberals, conservatives tend to register greater physiological responses to such stimuli and also to devote more psychological resources to them. Operating from this point of departure, we suggest approaches for refining understanding of the broad relationship between political views and response to the negative. We conclude with a discussion of normative implications, stressing that identifying differences across ideological groups is not tantamount to declaring one ideology superior to another.
Indeed, watching the brain's reaction to a single disgusting image was sufficient to guess each subject's political orientation. Montague said in the press release, "I haven't seen such clean predictive results in any other functional imaging experiments in our lab or others." <snip>
How you react to this photo reveals your political beliefs - CBS News
I hope you understand that your opinion on what is and isn't "junk science" has lost a lot of meaning since you advocated using science to incubate a baby in a dead woman's body. The fact that this study is on a peer reviewed journal at one of the world's most prestigious universities doesn't help your case much either. Anywho, for those interested in this peer reviewed "junk science", here is the Cambridge University link:
Cambridge Journals Online - Behavioral and Brain Sciences - Abstract - Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology
Indeed, watching the brain's reaction to a single disgusting image was sufficient to guess each subject's political orientation. Montague said in the press release, "I haven't seen such clean predictive results in any other functional imaging experiments in our lab or others." <snip>
How you react to this photo reveals your political beliefs - CBS News
Why should you not "incubate" the baby in a brain dead mother's body? Would you prefer letting it die? I mean, the mother's body is not dead and you would probably accept her heart.
There are two things wrong with the post above. One, you have no idea idea what medically dead means .....
What exactly is disgusting about an insect photographed in a completely unnatural setting? Asks the dragonfly. :mrgreen:
I can't see any photo. What's up?
I thought of you and how the remark was somewhat racist. It just isn't nice.
Indeed, watching the brain's reaction to a single disgusting image was sufficient to guess each subject's political orientation. Montague said in the press release, "I haven't seen such clean predictive results in any other functional imaging experiments in our lab or others." <snip>
How you react to this photo reveals your political beliefs - CBS News
I just get a kick out of all these studies that try to prove some physiological difference between liberals and conservatives. It's kind of silly but at some level it's also disturbing. I mean if you're searching for a "scientific" difference then what do you do when you find it?
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I hope you understand that your opinion on what is and isn't "junk science" has lost a lot of meaning since you advocated using science to incubate a baby in a dead woman's body. The fact that this study is on a peer reviewed journal at one of the world's most prestigious universities doesn't help your case much either. Anywho, for those interested in this peer reviewed "junk science", here is the Cambridge University link:
Cambridge Journals Online - Behavioral and Brain Sciences - Abstract - Differences in negativity bias underlie variations in political ideology
"Medically dead"? You probably mean "clinically dead". When you have looked it up, you will see why I used the term "brain dead".
I hope you appreciate that your opinion of my opinion is of even less value than the junk science you cite.
First reaction, squash the thing.
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Good grief, people enjoy arguing about semantics.