study predicts political belief 83% of the time

[Truthmatters]

Study Predicts Political Beliefs With 83 Percent Accuracy | Surprising Science


If you want to know people’s politics, tradition said to study their parents. In fact, the party affiliation of someone’s parents can predict the child’s political leanings about around 70 percent of the time.

But new research, published yesterday in the journal PLOS ONE, suggests what mom and dad think isn’t the endgame when it comes to shaping a person’s political identity. Ideological differences between partisans may reflect distinct neural processes, and they can predict who’s right and who’s left of center with 82.9 percent accuracy, outperforming the “your parents pick your party” model. It also out-predicts another neural model based on differences in brain structure, which distinguishes liberals from conservatives with 71.6 percent accuracy.

The study matched publicly available party registration records with the names of 82 American participants whose risk-taking behavior during a gambling experiment was monitored by brain scans. The researchers found that liberals and conservatives don’t differ in the risks they do or don’t take, but their brain activity does vary while they’re making decisions.


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[Truthmatters]

this is sceince.


Its not opinion


Its measurable fact

 

[Truthmatters]

Previous research has shown that during MRI scans, areas linked to broad social connectedness, which involves friends and the world at large, light up in Democrats’ brains. Republicans, on the other hand, show more neural activity in parts of the brain associated with tight social connectedness, which focuses on family and country.

Other scans have shown that brain regions associated with risk and uncertainty, such as the fear-processing amygdala, differ in structure in liberals and conservatives. And different architecture means different behavior. Liberals tend to seek out novelty and uncertainty, while conservatives exhibit strong changes in attitude to threatening situations. The former are more willing to accept risk, while the latter tends to have more intense physical reactions to threatening stimuli.

Building on this, the new research shows that Democrats exhibited significantly greater activity in the left insula, a region associated with social and self-awareness, during the task. Republicans, however, showed significantly greater activity in the right amygdala, a region involved in our fight-or flight response system.


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[Truthmatters]

Self awareness versus Fear.


fear is how the republican party is manipulating the people on the right.

They have a lower sense of self awareness and opperate largely out of fear.

 

[Truthmatters]

but again facts will just be ignored

 

[Truthmatters]

must ignore facts you dont like huh?

 

[Truthmatters]

83% of the time

 

[Truthmatters]

so many veiws and not on comment?


very telling

 

[TNHarley]

Looky here! Another unimportant "scientific" find that will be debunked next time around

 

[Mad Scientist]

so many veiws and not on comment?


very telling

No, very typically TM.

 

[Truthmatters]

sceince has no interest to some

 

[Truthmatters]

How many studies have to come out with the result that the right in this country are fearful people before you believe it?

 

[Skull Pilot]

this is sceince.


Its not opinion


Its measurable fact

And it's also transient.

The brain is a dynamic system and is never ever static.

 

[Oddball]

 

[Skull Pilot]

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[Truthmatters]

this is sceince.


Its not opinion


Its measurable fact

And it's also transient.

The brain is a dynamic system and is never ever static.

that is not what the study found.

 

[Truthmatters]

Its a new study fella

 

[Truthmatters]

Previous research has shown that during MRI scans, areas linked to broad social connectedness, which involves friends and the world at large, light up in Democrats’ brains. Republicans, on the other hand, show more neural activity in parts of the brain associated with tight social connectedness, which focuses on family and country.

Other scans have shown that brain regions associated with risk and uncertainty, such as the fear-processing amygdala, differ in structure in liberals and conservatives. And different architecture means different behavior. Liberals tend to seek out novelty and uncertainty, while conservatives exhibit strong changes in attitude to threatening situations. The former are more willing to accept risk, while the latter tends to have more intense physical reactions to threatening stimuli.

Building on this, the new research shows that Democrats exhibited significantly greater activity in the left insula, a region associated with social and self-awareness, during the task. Republicans, however, showed significantly greater activity in the right amygdala, a region involved in our fight-or flight response system.


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this is jsut one more study which finds YET AGAIN that right leaning people are fearfilled people

 

[Truthmatters]

You run scared and in turn try to use fear to try to control others

 

[Truthmatters]

If you dont know who you are you can never be a better person.


The other finding here is that left leaning people have a better self understanding.


The right has a tendency to live in fear and to not understand themself and others.


You can learn.

Do you wish to learn?