Skeptik
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Democrats and Republicans Both Adept at Ignoring Facts, Study Finds
I think we knew that already, but isn't it nice to have our suspicions confirmed?
Researchers asked staunch party members from both sides to evaluate information that threatened their preferred candidate prior to the 2004 Presidential election. The subjects' brains were monitored while they pondered.
The results were announced today.
"We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning," said Drew Westen, director of clinical psychology at Emory University. "What we saw instead was a network of emotion circuits lighting up, including circuits hypothesized to be involved in regulating emotion, and circuits known to be involved in resolving conflicts."
I think we knew that already, but isn't it nice to have our suspicions confirmed?