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The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 3:27:43 PM   
kittinSol


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Hippie reminded me of this study published last autumn: it's amusing, enlightening, and infurating - it confirms something I have suspected for a long time, which is that Right-Wing individuals are more rigid, aggressively inclined, and better organised than their mellow, laidback, Left-Wing counterparts.

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Consider a recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience recently with the brainy titlte Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism. The study, done in a combined effort by New York University and University of California, Los Angeles, looked a the possible cognitive difference between liberals and conservatives and was summed up thusly:

Political scientists and psychologists have noted that, on average, conservatives show more structured and persistent cognitive styles, whereas liberals are more responsible to informational complexity, ambiguity and novelty. (...)

Liberals, it found, tended to be less organized and somewhat indecisive (flip-floppers). Conservatives tended to be more rigid thinkers, close- minded, avoided new experiences and were somewhat more aggressive (war-monger).



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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 3:30:38 PM   
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I try to avoid being a memeber of the "sheeple's party".

Yanno?

The ones who listen to rhetoric and bullshit and beleive it's true? Without ever doing any independent thinking or research on thier own?

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 3:31:08 PM   
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I know, I know.

Actually, Leatherist, I must say this: your comment was pissy.

Next  .

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 3:46:02 PM   
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I try to avoid being a memeber of the "sheeple's party".




Wow that really puts you in the minority!   Everybody, (almost), is in the sheeples party!!






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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:02:51 PM   
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My definitions
A PC Liberal: the world owes me a living and everybody is as deserving as I know I am.
Not only that , I know that to right the wrongs that exist in this world  its my duty to spend other people's money.

A Conservative: this is a tough old world, I must do my best to provide for myself and my immediate family  because there is no reason to believe anyone else should.

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:04:45 PM   
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Yeah?   .

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:06:56 PM   
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brain? BRAIN????

WHAT IS BRAIN??????????


im sorry jim...that girl is the mind of a child.  you wont get anything out of that one.



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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:07:35 PM   
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Kitten Just open your mouth a little wider and I'll ram my massive  hot rod right up against your tonsils.
he he he he he he he he and lots more he's

Will somebody please give Faery a glass of water and let her lie down 'till she feels better.

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:09:15 PM   
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I'll ram my massive  hot rod right up against your tonsils.



Kittin had her tonsils taken out when she was 16. Now what yer gonna do, lad?

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:13:59 PM   
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Underneath his silly hair, Seeks makes an effort at being articulate. Still, he displays the typical symptoms of the right-wing thinker, according to this article. Which of course is complete tripe anyway  .

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:16:00 PM   
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PS: how did you know about my tonsils, NorthernGent  ?

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:22:40 PM   
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Well, kitten, I'm looking for a study (seen before) correlating CEOs and DSM-IV diagnoses. Meanwhile, here's this:
"The shamelessness of a narcissist -- barreling forward at everyone's expense, demanding more attention than anyone else at the cocktail party, barking opinions without any discernible evidence to back them up -- is offensive but also fascinating."
http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2002/07/30/narcissism/
I thought this apropos.

Very interesting Q&A w/ the author of "Evil Inc." (FICTION)
http://www.tor.com/evilinc/authorqa.html

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:34:50 PM   
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"The shamelessness of a narcissist -- barreling forward at everyone's expense, demanding more attention than anyone else at the cocktail party, barking opinions without any discernible evidence to back them up -- is offensive but also fascinating."

I thought this apropos.



A propos, maybe, but I bloody well hope it's not in correlation with me, me, me  .


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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:49:11 PM   
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

Hippie reminded me of this study published last autumn: it's amusing, enlightening, and infurating - it confirms something I have suspected for a long time, which is that Right-Wing individuals are more rigid, aggressively inclined, and better organised than their mellow, laidback, Left-Wing counterparts.

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Consider a recent study published in the journal Nature Neuroscience recently with the brainy titlte Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism. The study, done in a combined effort by New York University and University of California, Los Angeles, looked a the possible cognitive difference between liberals and conservatives and was summed up thusly:

Political scientists and psychologists have noted that, on average, conservatives show more structured and persistent cognitive styles, whereas liberals are more responsible to informational complexity, ambiguity and novelty. (...)

Liberals, it found, tended to be less organized and somewhat indecisive (flip-floppers). Conservatives tended to be more rigid thinkers, close- minded, avoided new experiences and were somewhat more aggressive (war-monger).



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Enjoy?

It did bring me a chuckle.  Which I assume was your purpose.

To seriously consider any of this article as anything other than a humorous mumble by a self confessed "liberal", you gotta be a brain dead "Lib", anyway.

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:54:12 PM   
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ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY

It did bring me a chuckle.  Which I assume was your purpose.

To seriously consider any of this article as anything other than a humorous mumble by a self confessed "liberal", you gotta be a brain dead "Lib", anyway.



Thankfully, my fishnet was large enough to accommodate a conshark of such enormous magnitude  .

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:56:08 PM   
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

I know, I know.

Actually, Leatherist, I must say this: your comment was pissy.

Next  .


Stupidity and laziness are universal qualities. You don't need to be tied to a "party" to be ignorant.

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:56:48 PM   
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Another link for right-wing dom CEO headcases.

http://neurologicalcorrelates.com/wordpress/2007/10/14/neuroeconomics-companies-self-select-incompetent-and-possibly-psychopathic-ceos/

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 4:58:49 PM   
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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

"The shamelessness of a narcissist -- barreling forward at everyone's expense, demanding more attention than anyone else at the cocktail party, barking opinions without any discernible evidence to back them up -- is offensive but also fascinating."

I thought this apropos.



A propos, maybe, but I bloody well hope it's not in correlation with me, me, me  .

It's not about you, it's about me. Go join Aileen over in the corner.

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 5:00:48 PM   
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Okkkkaayyy... I suppose earnestness is a necessary quality in this world.

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RE: The Left-Wing/Right-Wing Brain Connection - 4/10/2008 5:01:31 PM   
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Kittin, this doesn't really apply to you and some others in this site does it?
You're "Left -Wing" not "Liberal."
"Liberals" would be "too republican" for you!
I'm right in the middle so I can pick and choose the best of both worlds.

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