Political Opinion Hard Wired in Brain?
Check out this: http://www.wissenschaft.de/wissenschaft/news/282945 (in German). Some scientists apparently have been trying to find a difference in how persons who consider themselves rather liberal (or conservative) deal with new situations. The result they came up with seems to be quite interesting: Whenever the situation in the experiment changed, in most ‘liberal brains’ a different area was activated than in the ‘conservative brains’. The ‘liberal area’ in the brain seems to be the anterior cingular cortex. The scientists conclude that this might be a clue to whether political opinions are inherited saying that political opinion usually doesn’t change throughout one’s life. I can imagine the next Fox News headline: ‘Scientists: Liberals need brain surgery.’Â
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