You're not my real dad.

-PB

You poor, confused bastard.

I'm all of those things.

-PB

Monkeys are fiscal conservatives.

Got it!

What does that have to do with anything? Both sides of politics are equally guilty of using cheap, shitty slogans such as this.

Not at all, local MP's turn to local businesses to fund their campaigns. All 3 of my bosses voted Labor.

All voting is self serving. The left votes to fund their idea they are morally and intellectually better than other people.

That's just a handful of business leaders, a drop I the bucket. I'm talking small business owners and self-funded retirees.

Also doesn't explain why Canberra votes labor en masse as does the teaching and academic sector.

Right wing people also tend to be better at sports and getting laid, whereas left wing are more concerned with social issues, fairness and solving sudoku puzzles.

The Automatic Conservative: Ideology-Based Attentional Asymmetries in the Processing of Valenced Information

Abstract

Research has widely explored the differences between conservatives and liberals, and it has been also recently demonstrated that conservatives display different reactions toward valenced stimuli. However, previous studies have not yet fully illuminated the cognitive underpinnings of these differences. In the current work, we argued that political ideology is related to selective attention processes, so that negative stimuli are more likely to automatically grab the attention of conservatives as compared to liberals. In Experiment 1, we demonstrated that negative (vs. positive) information impaired the performance of conservatives, more than liberals, in an Emotional Stroop Task. This finding was confirmed in Experiment 2 and in Experiment 3 employing a Dot-Probe Task, demonstrating that threatening stimuli were more likely to attract the attention of conservatives. Overall, results support the conclusion that people embracing conservative views of the world display an automatic selective attention for negative stimuli.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0026456

The business sector votes right because they fund their policies and campaigns. It's self-serving.

Has nothing to do at all with the business sector and their pressures on politicians in right-wing parties?

-PB

And theeeeeeere we have it. Exactly why simplistic generalisations are ridiculous.

You do have to admit though that the public sector tends to vote left while the business sector tends to vote right.

#-o

Shove it up your arse mate.

Right wing people tend to take risks by starting and running businesses. Left wing people tend to work in safe, cushy jobs.

Usually people who run businesses end up moving further to the economic right.

The whole premise of the study is ridiculous.

Ozboy you keep changing the goalposts and bringing up irrelevant shit.

The point is: The experiment set out to prove that the enlarged Amygdala caused a stronger fear response but didn't explore other emotive responses to stimulus. If it doesn't explore whether the response to positive stimulus is equally as heightened then you're fitting your results to your hypothesis instead of the other way around.

Numerous studies demonstrate that the rhesus monkey is an excellent species with which to investigate mechanisms underlying human emotion and psychopathology. To examine the role of the central nucleus of the amygdala (CeA) in mediating the behavioral and physiological responses associated with fear and anxiety, we used rhesus monkeys to assess the effects of excitotoxic lesions of the CeA. Behavioral and physiological responses of nine monkeys with bilateral CeA destruction (ranging from 46 to 98%) were compared with five animals with asymmetric lesions (42-86.5% destruction on the most affected side) and with 16 unoperated controls. Results suggest that similar to rodent species, the primate CeA plays a role in mediating fear- and anxiety-related behavioral and endocrine responses. Compared with controls and the asymmetric-lesion group, bilaterally lesioned monkeys displayed significantly less fear-related behavior when exposed to a snake and less freezing behavior when confronted by a human intruder. In addition, bilaterally lesioned monkeys had decreased levels of CSF corticotrophin-releasing factor (CRF), and both lesioned groups had decreased plasma ACTH concentrations. In contrast to these findings, patterns of asymmetric frontal brain electrical activity, as assessed by regional scalp EEG, did not significantly differ between control and lesioned monkeys. These findings suggest that in primates, the CeA is involved in mediating fear- and anxiety-related behavioral and pituitary-adrenal responses as well as in modulating brain CRF activity.

http://www.jneurosci.org/content/24/24/5506

Yes I think that's what he means.

Don't you mean the suppository of all wisdom? :lol:

Biting the hand that feeds them really. I'm pretty sure it's envy, they despise the wealthy but want it so bad, they can't have it so they complain.

God the left is up itself. Fancy calling themselves "progressive".

They think they are the repository of goodness while the Right is just evil corporates exploiting people.

Talk about post-Industrial Revolution thinking.

This study doesn't allow for the Amygdala's other stimulus responses. It's only concerned with fear and therefore is a biased result.

If they have to rely on the intelligence of the masses and the masses are stupid, how do they get into power?

'Stahp Ze Bowts' really is the height of intellectual policy. Not that the government was feeding on fear response....

Because they have to rely on the intelligence of the masses. And the masses are stupid.

Amygdala volume correlates positively with fearfulness in normal healthy girls

Research into the neural underpinnings of fear and fear-related pathology has highlighted the role of the amygdala. For instance, bilateral damage to the amygdaloid complex is associated with decreased appreciation of danger and recognition of fear in humans, whereas enlarged amygdala volume is associated with internalizing syndromes. It is unknown whether amygdala volume and fearfulness are related in the absence of pathology. We examined the correlation between normal fearfulness and amygdala morphology in 116 healthy children and adolescents (60 boys, 56 girls, age 7–17 years). Fearfulness was measured using the parent ratings on the Pediatric Behavior Scale and amygdala volumes were determined by manual tracing. We found a positive correlation between right amygdala volume in girls (r = 0.29). This relationship was more robust and present bilaterally when analyses were limited to girls with a positive nuclear family history of depression (for left r = 0.63; for right r = 0.58). In boys there was no significant relationship which may suggest that biological mechanisms differ between sexes. Given the role of enlarged amygdala volume in pathology, these findings may indicate that variation in amygdala morphology marks susceptibility to internalizing disorders.

http://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2010/02/11/scan.nsq009

If liberals are so smart why aren't they intelligent enough to hold onto power?

Edited by rusty: 11/9/2013 02:49:51 PM