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Strong Emotions May Cause Temporary Blindness
Iphtashu Fitz writes "Ever been watching tv when a violent image comes on the screen and you don't even notice that somebody just entered the room? You've just encountered something known as emotion-induced blindness. Psychologists at Vanderbilt and Yale Universities have determined that people can suffer short periods of blindness, up to 1/2 a second in length, immediately after seeing highly emotional images. By displaying a series of images for 1/10 of a second each they were able to determine that test subjects couldn't identify images shown immediately after very erotic or gory images. You can try this out for yourself at the flash-based test site they have set up which also contains more details of the experiments."
President Bush comes on TV, and some of his more radical opponents are so blinded with rage that they become immune to logic...
Naw, the theory assumes that the person actually has a brain that gets distracted. Politicians have evolved the ability to completely ignore this particular organ. Nice try though...
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Oh for crying out loud, give it a rest. You'd probably be a lot happier with Kerry in office just so you'd really have something to complain about. I've definitely got bones to pick with Bush, mostly related to his beholdeness to the religious right, but finding him to be a better C-in-C than the alternative doesn't exactly make me a cult member. My principles don't allow me to vote for a guy I like even less (or note vote at all) just because the guy that at least echos some of what I like isn't my entire philosophical clone.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.