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   -=> Janis Kracht wrote to Dan Clough <=-   
      
    >...  I hold out hope   
    > that one day.... they will understand.   
      
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    JK> Study Predicts Political Beliefs With 83 Percent Accuracy Scans   
    JK> show that liberals and conservatives use different parts of the   
    JK> brain when they take risks, helping to pinpoint the political   
    JK> party a person prefers By Marina Koren smithsonianmag.com   
    JK> February 14, 2013   
      
    JK> If you want to know people's politics, tradition said to study   
    JK> their parents. In fact, the party affiliation of someone's   
    JK> parents can predict the child's political leanings about around   
    JK> 70 percent of the time.   
      
    JK> But new research, published yesterday in the journal PLOS ONE,   
    JK> suggests what mom and dad think isn't the endgame when it comes   
    JK> to shaping a person's political identity. Ideological differences   
    JK> between partisans may reflect distinct neural processes, and they   
    JK> can predict who's right and who's left of center with 82.9   
    JK> percent accuracy, outperforming the "your parents pick your   
    JK> party" model. It also out-predicts another neural model based on   
    JK> differences in brain structure, which distinguishes liberals from   
    JK> conservatives with 71.6 percent accuracy. [...]   
    JK> The idea that the brains of Democrats and Republicans may be   
    JK> hard-wired to their beliefs is not new. Previous research has   
    JK> shown that during MRI scans, areas linked to broad social   
    JK> connectedness, which involves friends and the world at large,   
    JK> light up in Democrats' brains. Republicans, on the other hand,   
    JK> show more neural activity in parts of the brain associated with   
    JK> tight social connectedness, which focuses on family and country.   
    JK> [...] =======cut here===   
      
   Very interesting and informative.  Makes perfect sense to me, and    
   I can certainly say that I care more about family and country than    
   I do about "social connectedness".   
      
   Thanks for sharing that.   
      
      
      
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