Is that all you can come up with? That is pathetic. Even a freshman psychology student with a "C" average could do better.
The Kanai et al (2012) study was legitimate and has been replicated with samples involving middle age Londoners, and in the US. Moreover in an earlier study (Oxley, D. R., Smith, K. B., Alford, J. R., Hibbing, M. V., Miller, M.S., Hatemi, P. K., et al. (2008). Political attitudes vary with physiological traits. Science, 321, 16671670.) the authors found that individuals with measurably lower physical sensitivities to sudden noises and threatening visual images were more likely to support foreign aid, liberal immigration policies, pacifism, and gun control, whereas individuals displaying measurably higher physiological reactions to those same stimuli were more likely to favor defense spending, capital punishment, patriotism, and the Iraq War. Thus, the degree to which individuals are physiologically responsive to threat appears to indicate the degree to which they advocate policies that protect the existing social structure from both external (outgroup) and internal (norm-violator) threats. This physiological reactivity is regulated by the Amygdala. This is right in line with Kanai et al. (2012) - but the Oxley et al (2007) study used an entirely different modality. If you like I can cite many many more studies that have found similar results, but mostly have used other measures, such as physiological reactivity, paper and pencil measures, behavioral measures or other forms of neurophysiological assessment, such as EEG or the Halstad-Reitan. So much for your fake fMRI study - please explain if its "faked", since unless you did not read my response which I showed why and how that paper your mentioned was not relevant to this issue. Frankly that faked routine is complete and absolute bullshit - if you don't understand what's happening its not bullshit, its your ignorance. One that can be corrected through educating yourself. If the results are bogus, then how come many other studies using very different processes and methods have found similar results? Did some fairy wave some magic dust into the eyes of the scientists conducting the research? Or is it like the typical response you give to global warming, its a vast conspiracy of scientists to get more money etc. In other words bullshit. Secondly results showing differences between progressives and conservatives involving the Anterior Cyngulate Gyri have been found with Event-Related Evoked Potentials EEG studies, which btw is a very different modality than fMRI (see Amodio, D. M., Jost, J. T., Master, S. L., & Yee, C. M. (2007). Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism. Nature Neuroscience, 10, 12461247.). Additionally similar results have been found with paper and pencil measures of tolerance for ambiguity, which is regulated by the Anterior Cyngulate Gyri. Similarly for Openness to New Experience, again a personality dimension that is strongly associated with the Anterior Cyngulate. All in all I can cite well over 100 studies since the late 1990's that have investigated some aspect of this. The results are quite consistent, and very similar across different modalities. That last bit is important, very different measures, behavioral, personality, physiological and neurological measures have found very similar results, well within what one would expect given differences in measurement reliability and variations in samples and methodology. Let me put it this way Sam if you get slapped in the face 10 different ways its a pretty good bet that you've been slapped in the face a few times. Other differences are also turning up. Political ideology appears also to influence directed and sustained attention. Right now I am trying to figure out the implications and details on this study and find out whether its been replicated. this study found that the researchers found standard gaze-cuing effects across all subjects but systematic differences in these effects by political temperament. Liberals exhibited a very large gaze-cuing effect, whereas conservatives showed no such effect at various stimulus onset asynchronies. Which btw is very similar to what is found with Autistic children and adults. I'm trying to figure out how this one can be integrated into the model I'm developing. I think that its in tune with the differences in the Amygdala again, but I have to do more research to confirm this. Another area I'm in the process of tracking down and trying to integrate into this model is how conservatives and progressives differ in terms of discussion and argument style. There is a tendency for conservatives to use emotional arguments, black and white (no shades of grey) approaches and cases to demonstrate their points, in contrast progressives use nuanced logic and reasoning, numbers and statistics. I saw this article that explored that a year or so ago but never saved it. But if these differences hold it would fit nicely within the model I'm trying to build. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Sam <sammyc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Didn't you post an article about fake science last week, did it > feature your retarded fMRI studies? -- Larry C. Lyons web: http://www.lyonsmorris.com/lyons LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/larryclyo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:360581 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
