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01/24/2006 03:24:21 PM · #1 |
//www.nytimes.com/2006/01/24/science/24find.html?_r=1
Wow, this explains a lot in the rant forum.
Liberals and conservatives can become equally bug-eyed and irrational when talking politics, especially when they are on the defensive.
Using M.R.I. scanners, neuroscientists have now tracked what happens in the politically partisan brain when it tries to digest damning facts about favored candidates or criticisms of them. The process is almost entirely emotional and unconscious, the researchers report, and there are flares of activity in the brain's pleasure centers when unwelcome information is being rejected.
"Everything we know about cognition suggests that, when faced with a contradiction, we use the rational regions of our brain to think about it, but that was not the case here," said Dr. Drew Westen, a psychologist at Emory and lead author of the study, to be presented Saturday at meetings of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology in Palm Springs, Calif.
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01/24/2006 04:49:29 PM · #2 |
WRONG!!!
ooooh...that felt gooood. (pawdrix lights a cigarette) |
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