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Thick Headed
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 5:53 pm
by kalm
The amygdala is part of the limbic system that determines fight or flight. AKA; lizard brain.
Brain shape of conservatives is different to liberals
London - There seems to have been a lot of research on the cerebral differences of conservatives and liberals lately. These new findings by the University College of London indicates different brain physiology.
The UCL findings indicate conservatives have thicker tissues in a part of the brain called the amygdala, the emotional area, and liberals have thicker anterior cingulates, which are associated with emotion, but also associated with learning.
The research began as a “lighthearted” idea by BBC actor Colin Firth, but has become serious research. In conjunction with recent news regarding the difference in how conservatives and liberals interact with people, the subject is turning into an actual, if unintentional, study of mentalities...
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Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:10 pm
by Col Hogan
Yea....right...
I was a flaming liberal until I was 30...then I started to learn about the real world...
Slowly (at first)I started to see the faults of liberalism...once I could no longer rationalize away those many faults...I quickly became a conservative...
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 6:30 pm
by D1B
Col Hogan wrote:Yea....right...
I was a flaming liberal until I was 30...then I started to learn about the real world...
Slowly (at first)I started to see the faults of liberalism...once I could no longer rationalize away those many faults...I quickly became a conservative...
Faults, like what Hogan?
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:28 pm
by kalm
Col Hogan wrote:Yea....right...
I was a flaming liberal until I was 30...then I started to learn about the real world...
Slowly (at first)I started to see the faults of liberalism...once I could no longer rationalize away those many faults...I quickly became a conservative...
Gee, thanks Winston Churchill.
Speaking from experience - running a business, dealing with government regulators, dealing with customers who expect something for free, dealing with employees who can't see past their own self interest requires every last fiber of my strength to avoid falling into total authoritarian conkdom.
My lizard brain wants to grow.
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:56 pm
by Ibanez
D1B wrote:Col Hogan wrote:Yea....right...
I was a flaming liberal until I was 30...then I started to learn about the real world...
Slowly (at first)I started to see the faults of liberalism...once I could no longer rationalize away those many faults...I quickly became a conservative...
Faults, like what Hogan?
Well, I'm guessing it might do with Liberals thinking they are always right.
Same as conservatives.
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 7:59 pm
by D1B
Ibanez wrote:D1B wrote:
Faults, like what Hogan?
Well, I'm guessing it might do with Liberals thinking they are always right.
Same as conservatives.
Didn't ask you, and you're fucked.
Conks are the ones always saying god is on their side.
Nice try Junior, now get back your tic tac toe tournament with the rest of the retards in your assisted living home.
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 8:44 pm
by UNHWildCats
What if you're socially liberal and fiscally conservative or vice versa?
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 9:21 pm
by Grizalltheway
UNHWildCats wrote:What if you're socially liberal and fiscally conservative or vice versa?
Then you clearly don't fit in with the zero-sum game our political system has become.
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 11:13 pm
by CID1990
It is funny how these studies are ok in some cases and verboten in others.
If it denigrates conservatives then it is OK.
I guess if this has merit, then the same folks who find it valid would also find physiological studies comparing whites and blacks valid?
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 7:45 am
by Ibanez
D1B wrote:Ibanez wrote:
Well, I'm guessing it might do with Liberals thinking they are always right.
Same as conservatives.
Didn't ask you, and you're fucked.
Conks are the ones always saying god is on their side.
Nice try Junior, now get back your tic tac toe tournament with the rest of the retards in your assisted living home.
Nice try Jeff, but you know your full of shit. Fuckin' instigators. Go back to your home...alone...with your cats.
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:10 am
by D1B
Ibanez wrote:D1B wrote:
Didn't ask you, and you're fucked.
Conks are the ones always saying god is on their side.
Nice try Junior, now get back your tic tac toe tournament with the rest of the retards in your assisted living home.
Nice try Jeff, but you know your full of shit. Fuckin' instigators. Go back to your home...alone...with your cats.
Yeah, whatever Ibanez?
Sorry you can't keep up.
Ibanez, circa 2009
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 8:16 am
by Ibanez
D1B wrote:Ibanez wrote:
Nice try Jeff, but you know your full of shit. Fuckin' instigators. Go back to your home...alone...with your cats.
Yeah, whatever Ibanez?
Sorry you can't keep up.
Ibanez, circa 2009
Keep up? I'm not the Saltan of Gross Generalization.
D1b, Yesterday.
D1B, you're a good sport.
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:13 am
by 89Hen
kalm wrote:total authoritarian conkdom.
Let me know if you find any of those.
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 9:14 am
by kalm
89Hen wrote:kalm wrote:total authoritarian conkdom.
Let me know if you find any of those.
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 11:11 am
by mainejeff
UNHWildCats wrote:What if you're socially liberal and fiscally conservative or vice versa?
Blashemy (in this CUNTRY
)!
You may as well be a COMMIE and you are of no use to either party..........
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 2:56 pm
by D1B
Ibanez wrote:D1B wrote:
Yeah, whatever Ibanez?
Sorry you can't keep up.
Ibanez, circa 2009
Keep up? I'm not the Saltan of Gross Generalization.
D1b, Yesterday.
D1B, you're a good sport.
Shit Hansel, I wish I was that skinny! Thanks Brutha!
Re: Thick Headed
Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2010 3:33 pm
by Grizalltheway
WTF is a Saltan, Sticky Bunz?