There is a difference in brain function between liberals and conservatives

[Hamlette]

A group of 43 right-handed subjects were asked to perform a series of computer tests designed to evaluate their unrehearsed response to cues urging them to break a well-established routine.

"People often drive home from work on the same route, day after day, such that it becomes habitual and doesn't involve much thinking," Amodio explained by way of comparison in an e-mail.

"But occasionally there is road work, or perhaps an animal crosses the road, and you need to break out of your habitual response in order to deal with this new information."

Using electroencephalographs, which measure neuronal impulses, the researchers examined activity in a part of the brain -- the anterior cingulate cortex -- that is strongly linked with the self-regulatory process of conflict monitoring.

The match-up was unmistakable: respondents who had described themselves as liberals showed "significantly greater conflict-related neural activity" when the hypothetical situation called for an unscheduled break in routine.

Conservatives, however, were less flexible, refusing to deviate from old habits "despite signals that this ... should be changed."


http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070909/hl_afp/scienceneuroscience_070909173324

Doesn't that just describe Bush?

[kurth]

1. Percentage of fecal matter is higher in conservatives

[DesertRat]

2. It describes all the right wingers I know.

[InvisibleTouch]

3. The difference being...

...liberals have brain function. ;)

[aquart]

4. Which is why you sell conservatives on getting things back to how they were.

Even if they weren't.