"Liberalism was associated with stronger conflict-related anterior cingulate activity, suggesting greater neurocognitive sensitivity to cues for altering a habitual response pattern."Essentially, conservatives tend to rely on ‘persistence’ in a ‘habitual response pattern,’ despite signals that this response pattern should change... (i.e. "stay the course")
Liberals have more gray matter in a part of the brain associated with understanding complexity - the anterior cingulate cortex, while the conservative brain is bigger in the section related to processing fear - the right amygdala.
Liberal: ...generous, abundant, lavish, broadminded, tolerant, enlightened, charitable, free, advanced
Antonym:
Conservative: ...stingy, miserly, reactionary, regressive, bigoted, prejudiced, biased, narrow-minded, strict
Synonyms: obstinate, inflexible, uncreative, hide-bound, unimaginative, undaring, unprogressive, red-neck
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Over at Sharon Cobb's place she has a poste up about Maher as well, in which I learned for the first time that he's good friends with Ann Coulter.
Ewwww....!!!!
Those were great, and spot on!
I have 3 teenage sons. Nah, they're not horny... ;).
Southern Beale:
Aw, c'mon, you know you'd want to be a fly on the wall for one of their conversations. :)
William:
I think Maher is a smart guy who says some great things. I don't much care for the way he gave the reichwingers a pass for so long. And if he's a friend of Coulter's it says much more about the two of them being "actors" than anything else.
democommie
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