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Reactions To Disgusting Images Predict a Persons Political Ideology
LuxuryYacht writes A new study shows that the way your brain responds to photos of of maggots, mutilated carcasses, and gunk in the kitchen sink gives a pretty good indication of whether you're liberal or conservative. "Remarkably, we found that the brain's response to a single disgusting image was enough to predict an individual's political ideology," Read Montague, a Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute psychology professor who led the study, said in a written statement. 83 men and women viewed a series of images while having their brains scanned in a functional MRI (fMRI) machine. The images included the disgusting photos described above, along with photos of babies and pleasant landscapes. Afterward, the participants were asked to rate how grossed out they were by each photo. They also completed a survey about their political beliefs, which included questions about their attitudes toward school prayer, gun control, immigration, and gay marriage. There was no significant difference in how liberals and conservatives rated the photos. But the researchers noted differences between the two groups in the activity of brain regions associated with disgust recognition, emotion regulation, attention and even memory. The differences were so pronounced that the researchers could analyze a scan and predict the person's political leaning with 95 percent accuracy.
Didn't bat an eye when Stalin was butchering the Ukrainians, Mao butchering the Chinese or Pol Pot butchering the Cambodians.
"If you are asking did I support the Soviet Union, yes I did. Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life." - George Galloway
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Liberals wants others to suffer while they immerse themselves in enjoyment. The more they see others suffer the more orgy the Liberals get
Conservatives on the other hand, work hard to prevent any suffering from happening, and if suffering is inevitable, the Conservatives volunteer themselves to be the one w ho suffer
The Liberals use any excuse they can find to increase the suffer of others
For example, the Liberals use the "Pro Choice" excuse excuse to legally slaughtering babies, even babies which are already 8 to 9 months old, the Liberals insist that those babies are *NOT* human, hence, it is totally legal to cut the babies, piece by piece, alive
On the other hand, the Conservatives fight hard to keep the babies alive, because to the Conservatives, slaughtering babies, no matter under what circumstance, should *NOT* be permitted, and work very hard to keep the abortion to the minimum, especially the late term abortions