The Surprising Brain Differences Between Democrats - Mother Jones

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LiberalFighter (30,721 posts)

The Surprising Brain Differences Between Democrats - Mother Jones


 
Mother Jones

First, in the American Journal of Political Science, a team of researchers including Peter Hatemi of Penn State University and Rose McDermott of Brown University studied the relationship between our deep-seated tendencies to experience fear—tendencies that vary from person to person, partly for reasons that seem rooted in our genes—and our political beliefs. What they found is that people who have more fearful disposition also tend to be more politically conservative, and less tolerant of immigrants and people of races different from their own. As McDermott carefully emphasizes, that does not mean that every conservative has a high fear disposition. "It's not that conservative people are more fearful, it's that fearful people are more conservative," as she puts it.
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http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251292637

Another one of these "studies" done by a leftist who claims that they have a clue about conservatives.

You want to talk about living in fear? Take a poptart and nibble on it until it looks like a gun. A conservative will think nothing of it, a liberal will suspend the kid and offer counseling to all the kids who were scared by it.

Every damn issue that the libs talk about is nothing but fear. Fear of guns, fear of global climate change, fear of Rush Limbaugh, fear of having to pay your way in life.

whistler162 (5,426 posts)
2. Some people believe any garbage

if it is printed on the Internet!

DU is famous for that.

[Skul]

I'll see yer "mother jones", and raise you Mother Teressa.
Chew on that, DUmptards.

[delilahmused]

Way too many variables here. And what definition of "fear" are they using? How is it being measured? Could simply be the idiots on the left don't have fear because they're too stupid to notice a threat. Kinda like thinking gun free zones are a good idea and being convinced that being in one will make you super duper safe even though there seems to be an inordinate amount of murders in those "safe" zones.

Cindie

[miskie]

Sure - That's why so many leftists are in the military - because they aren't afraid to put their lives on the line for what is right.. 


Here is a hint, DUmbasses - make sure your 'research' can't be debunked by something as obvious as an elephant in an otherwise empty field. 

[Mr Mannn]

Want a study of fear, look at any liberal socialist website. You will see unreasoning fear and hate towards Christians, Jews, and anyone who dares to disagree. Fear and loathing of inanimate objects like guns, Fear of legitimate debate. Fear of a strong military, or an armed populace.

The most fearful people I know are liberal/socialists.

[Conservative Libertarian]

The thing that most Libtards don't understand is that many Conservatives used to be Liberals until they grew up and left their parents' home.  Many Conservatives understand the Liberal mindset because they used to have it themselves before they were slapped in the face by reality and was smart enoughto understand that it happenned.

[JohnnyReb]

Liberals have a fear of a chunk of metal called a pistol/weapon/gun/riffle/shotgun etc......now, here I sit, a conservative, surrounded by them and I fear no evil.

[Wineslob]

As always, they project the truth about themselves, while patting themselves on the back declaring their superiority.

[Tucker]

First off, I'm armed. Secondly, I hope that God is with me.

[Maxiest]

Way too many variables here. And what definition of "fear" are they using? How is it being measured? Could simply be the idiots on the left don't have fear because they're too stupid to notice a threat. Kinda like thinking gun free zones are a good idea and being convinced that being in one will make you super duper safe even though there seems to be an inordinate amount of murders in those "safe" zones.

Cindie

Good Point.  I think we should initiate Theft free zones at all stores.  This will end the theft right?

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

Liberals are smarter

That's why they're perpetually unemployed, on drugs and incapable of supporting themselves.



Liberals are less prone to fear

They just need you to give up your guns, your choice of news services, your church and any beverages containing high fructose corn syrup.



Liberals have better policies

Which is why they need to support them with the money you earn whether you like it or not

[Dori]

The thing that most Libtards don't understand is that many Conservatives used to be Liberals until they grew up and left their parents' home.  Many Conservatives understand the Liberal mindset because they used to have it themselves before they were slapped in the face by reality and was smart enoughto understand that it happenned.

That was my experience....   Living in the real world sort of slapped me out of it.

I wished they would run test results with these so called reports.  I have a good one... Drop a DUmmie and an independent conservative into a forest somewhere and see which one survives.

[Ptarmigan]

One of the lead reserchers, Peter Hatemi, is at Penn State University. A school marred by Jerry Sandusky scandal.

Conservatives are mentally healthier than liberals
http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2011/11/conservatives-are-mentally-healthier.html

Politics   Treated
Liberal 19.7%
Moderate 11.8%
Conservative 9.7%

[Tucker]

 Liberals populate the psychiatric field, both as Physician/therapist and patient. Read any given campfire at DU and there will be several DUmmies that are in therapy or are under the control of some psychotropic drugs.

If they experience any upheaval in their miserable lives, the first suggestion offered by the collective is to get therapy.

[miskie]

If they experience any upheaval in their miserable lives, the first suggestion offered by the collective is to get therapy.

Of course it is -

One thing all liberals seem to hate with an intensity approaching the heat a thousand suns generate is responsibility. For anything. So, many would just rather be labeled as unwell, because then their problems really aren't their fault. The illness did it.

[J P Sousa]

I found another, though different study about reps and dems;

Being a Republican or Democrat changes how the brain functions

 Democrats showed significantly greater activity in the left insula, a region associated with social and self-awareness. Meanwhile Republicans showed significantly greater activity in the right amygdala, a region involved in the body's fight-or-flight system.  

http://yubanet.com/scitech/The-party-in-your-brain-Being-a-Republican-or-Democrat-changes-how-the-brain-functions.php

IMO; nothing new dems are touchy-feely, reps are not.  


Forgot to add this;

 Democrats tend to be more global and Republicans more America-centric  

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121101105003.htm

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[Delmar]

Response to LiberalFighter (Original post)Fri Mar 8, 2013, 11:17 AM
davidthegnome (1,731 posts)
8. This required a study?

It should be evident to anyone who has even a vague understanding of politics. I'd have to disagree with McDermott, conservatives, overall ARE more fearful, more gullible, more ignorant, less educated, more violent, etc. There's also the fact that they are, generally, not really "conservative"....

The brain differences between democrats and republicans are so obvious to davidthegnome that he questions the need for the study.  He's probably right that there is no need for this new study--democrats have done exhaustive research in this area going back many years.  What would the DUmmies suggest that could be done about these conservatives and their inferior brains?  Something like this?

advocating the improvement of human hereditary traits through the promotion of higher reproduction of more desired people and traits, and reduced reproduction of less desired people and traits

 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenics

The goal is to make conservatives the other and to be thought of as subhumans.

Go burn in hell with Margaret Sanger and Hitler, DUmmies.

 

[I_B_Perky]

Well dummie. Let's look at it logically. You wake up in the morning worried about your welfare getting cut. I don't. You go all apeshit over something some conservative says on the radio or TV that you want it banned by the government. When I hear a liberal talk, I change the channel. You are so fearful of hearing a different point of view, that you go running to mommy skinner to ban the offending poster or hit the ignore button so you don't have to see it. If someone here starts spouting stuff I don't agree with and do not want to read, I just skip over their posts.

I could go on and on... but you get the idea. Now who is the fearful one?

Hint: Not me.

[Tucker]

Democrats tend to be more global and Republicans more America-centric 

http://www.sciencedaily.c.../2012/11/121101105003.htm

No shit.

Democrats think global and act loco.

[JohnnyReb]

No shit.

Democrats think global and act loco.

  ......you could write a book on liberals and not hit the nail on the head more accurately than those 5 words.