| Liberals are smarter than Conservatives |
[Mar. 4th, 2008|11:29 am] |
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Although, listening to 970WFLA lately, I'm sick of both sides!
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-politics10sep10,0,5982337.story
Participants were college students whose politics ranged from "very liberal" to "very conservative." They were instructed to tap a keyboard when an M appeared on a computer monitor and to refrain from tapping when they saw a W.
M appeared four times more frequently than W, conditioning participants to press a key in knee-jerk fashion whenever they saw a letter.
Each participant was wired to an electroencephalograph that recorded activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, the part of the brain that detects conflicts between a habitual tendency (pressing a key) and a more appropriate response (not pressing the key). Liberals had more brain activity and made fewer mistakes than conservatives when they saw a W, researchers said. Liberals and conservatives were equally accurate in recognizing M.
( Full Article Here )
http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2008/02/liberal-mind-vs-conservative-mind-is-it.html |
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