Peering inside the brain with MRI scans, researchers at University College London found that self-described conservative students had a larger amygdala than liberals. The amygdala is an almond-shaped structure deep in the brain that is active during states of fear and anxiety. Liberals had more gray matter at least in the anterior cingulate cortex, a region of the brain that helps people cope with complexity.

There is a big unknown underlying these findings. Supposing that the size of one's amygdala really does increase the likelihood of being a conservative. Is the size of the amygdala determined at birth, or does it perhaps increase with frightening childhood experiences, such as authoritarian parenting and corporal punishment?

Most societies are divided into a party that wants change (the more liberal party) and one that is afraid of change (the conservatives). The liberal party is generally more intellectual and the conservative party is more anti-intellectual.

The conservative party is big on national defense and magnifies our perception of threat, whether of foreign aggressors, immigrants, terrorists, or invading ideologies like Communism. To a conservative, the world really is a frightening place.

Peering inside the brain with MRI scans, researchers at University College London found that self-described conservative students had a larger amygdala than liberals. The amygdala is an almond-shaped structure deep in the brain that is active during states of fear and anxiety. Liberals had more gray matter at least in the anterior cingulate cortex, a region of the brain that helps people cope with complexity.

There is a big unknown underlying these findings. Supposing that the size of one's amygdala really does increase the likelihood of being a conservative. Is the size of the amygdala determined at birth, or does it perhaps increase with frightening childhood experiences, such as authoritarian parenting and corporal punishment?

Most societies are divided into a party that wants change (the more liberal party) and one that is afraid of change (the conservatives). The liberal party is generally more intellectual and the conservative party is more anti-intellectual.

The conservative party is big on national defense and magnifies our perception of threat, whether of foreign aggressors, immigrants, terrorists, or invading ideologies like Communism. To a conservative, the world really is a frightening place.

But wait who was so filled with fear that they had to spy on every person in the worlds cell phones, send the IRS to harass people who disagree with them, monitor everyones email, go after those scary Little Sisters of the Poor, EO laws that allow unlimited incarceration of people without trials, use drones to kill thousands of innocent women and children and laugh about it, try to dismantle law abiding citizens second amendment rights, monitor journalist and their families homes, told our military to not respond to cries for help when a consulate was under attack, strip search all the Marines before the inaugural march to make sure they had no live rounds, win an election with promises that they wouldn't have to work, cover up every aspect of their previous life, are so afraid of two steal beams that cross each other and whine till they are removed from a public monument, block veterans from visiting their own WWII monument and allow Muslims to gather on the same grounds. I could go on and on but I think I have made my point.
Look how scary these bunch of criminals are.

Peering inside the brain with MRI scans, researchers at University College London found that self-described conservative students had a larger amygdala than liberals. The amygdala is an almond-shaped structure deep in the brain that is active during states of fear and anxiety. Liberals had more gray matter at least in the anterior cingulate cortex, a region of the brain that helps people cope with complexity.

There is a big unknown underlying these findings. Supposing that the size of one's amygdala really does increase the likelihood of being a conservative. Is the size of the amygdala determined at birth, or does it perhaps increase with frightening childhood experiences, such as authoritarian parenting and corporal punishment?

Most societies are divided into a party that wants change (the more liberal party) and one that is afraid of change (the conservatives). The liberal party is generally more intellectual and the conservative party is more anti-intellectual.

The conservative party is big on national defense and magnifies our perception of threat, whether of foreign aggressors, immigrants, terrorists, or invading ideologies like Communism. To a conservative, the world really is a frightening place.

antiE,
I see you are still angry at me.
This and supportive research is available on your search engine. If you have trouble finding it, let me know and I will give you some web sites.

This research yielded generalized results that are in agreement with every study I am familiar with. The finding was that people who identified themselves as conservative had significantly differences in the structure of a part of the brain that made them more sensitive to threat, have less tolerance of ambiguity, and some other things.

An anti intellectual would tend to believe scientific discoveries that supported their opinions and biases and dismiss those that refuted them. They would accept or reject opinions of others depending on the person rather than the content of the assertions. Anti scientific thinking would be more controlled by unconscious biases and defenses of those biases.

antiE,
I see you are still angry at me.
This and supportive research is available on your search engine. If you have trouble finding it, let me know and I will give you some web sites.

This research yielded generalized results that are in agreement with every study I am familiar with. The finding was that people who identified themselves as conservative had significantly differences in the structure of a part of the brain that made them more sensitive to threat, have less tolerance of ambiguity, and some other things.

An anti intellectual would tend to believe scientific discoveries that supported their opinions and biases and dismiss those that refuted them. They would accept or reject opinions of others depending on the person rather than the content of the assertions. Anti scientific thinking would be more controlled by unconscious biases and defenses of those biases.

But wait who was so filled with fear that they had to spy on every person in the worlds cell phones, send the IRS to harass people who disagree with them, monitor everyones email, go after those scary Little Sisters of the Poor, EO laws that allow unlimited incarceration of people without trials, use drones to kill thousands of innocent women and children and laugh about it, try to dismantle law abiding citizens second amendment rights, monitor journalist and their families homes, told our military to not respond to cries for help when a consulate was under attack, strip search all the Marines before the inaugural march to make sure they had no live rounds, win an election with promises that they wouldn't have to work, cover up every aspect of their previous life, are so afraid of two steal beams that cross each other and whine till they are removed from a public monument, block veterans from visiting their own WWII monument and allow Muslims to gather on the same grounds. I could go on and on but I think I have made my point.
Look how scary these bunch of criminals are.

Peering inside the brain with MRI scans, researchers at University College London found that self-described liberal students had no brain, only a shrunken and no-longer operative drool gland. At this time there is no explanation of how these people manage to have even the limited existence in society they seem to have. It was suggested that just like their leaders, they operate only on implanted suggestions and if not regularly updated through programming, will revert to Zombie status, staggering around mumbling "Other people's Money!" and trying to attack people who are actually productive.