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Post 29 Dec 2010, 12:44 pm

The source is questionable, and the study being reported is pretty small, but there is a suggestion that there is are differences in the brains of people related to their political stance.

British Conservatives had an enlarged amygdala, and lefties had an enlarged anteria cingulate

(from http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2 ... -22812552/ - Daily Mirror)

edit: BBCode off? waah!
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Post 29 Dec 2010, 2:25 pm

I seem to recall you objecting when I said all politics was psychology. :D
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Post 30 Dec 2010, 1:07 am

Minister, you appear to have confused a question with a statement.
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Post 30 Dec 2010, 9:24 pm

That would certainly explain why so many people vote against their self-interest.


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