I’d like to see a contrast between, say, bleeding heart liberals, and the more cunning or hawkish ones. How does Bernie compare to Hillary? Do they both have the same motive indicators / emotional response, and then modulate it in different ways as actions are taken or not?
From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow Sent: Friday, March 04, 2016 7:51 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <[email protected]> Subject: [FRIAM] subjectivity and brain scans In today's issue of Science, http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1074 Goal-directed human behaviors are driven by motives. Motives are, however, purely mental constructs that are not directly observable. Here, we show that the brain’s functional network architecture captures information that predicts different motives behind the same altruistic act with high accuracy. In contrast, mere activity in these regions contains no information about motives. Empathy-based altruism is primarily characterized by a positive connectivity from the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) to the anterior insula (AI), whereas reciprocity-based altruism additionally invokes strong positive connectivity from the AI to the ACC and even stronger positive connectivity from the AI to the ventral striatum. Moreover, predominantly selfish individuals show distinct functional architectures compared to altruists, and they only increase altruistic behavior in response to empathy inductions, but not reciprocity inductions. Evidently based on subject self reporting "with high accuracy". -- rec --
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