Scientists at NYU and UCLA have ‘found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work.’ I found this amusing.
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.
Maybe this will help Bush understand why his b.s. does not catapult the propaganda among those with more brain activity.
wouldn’t know the truth if it hit them in the face with an exploding cannon ball. It’s as if the Enlightenment never happened for them.
Coincidence? They used number 43 and test takers were to do nothing if W came up.
Clarification: They used 43 subjects.
Wouldn’t a more accurate title be “Thinking you’re seeing W when you have a defective brain”?
You can’t make this stuff up. I read the whole article, and if it wasn’t for the URL, I would be almost certain it came from the Onion or some other parody site.