Study Finds This Key Difference In Conservative Brains
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below. www.tytnetwork....
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"A 2008 study(link is external) published in the journal Science found that conservatives have a stronger physiological response to startling noises and graphic images. This adds to a growing body of research that indicates a hypersensitivity to threat-a hallmark of anxiety. But why exactly would those that scare more easily tend to support conservative views? One social psychologist from the University of Central Arkansas, Paul Nail, has a pretty interesting answer:
“Conservatism, apparently, helps to protect people against some of the natural difficulties of living. The fact is we don’t live in a completely safe world. Things can and do go wrong. But if I can impose this order on it by my worldview, I can keep my anxiety to a manageable level.” This could explain the two parties’ different stances on gun control. It only makes sense that those who startle more easily are also the ones that believe they need to own a gun.”*
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The dems should run on “Make America Safe AgaIn” and hand out free sanitizer.
I use hand sanitizer............. What's wrong with that?!?!
yuppa have the trumptards go around screaming maga and the minorities screaming masa at their white overlords
Genius
OK, you see this guy Jesse's post, trolls? That is how you do it. Finally, a con with a sense of humor.
this is hilarious
If you say "far right" fast enough, it comes out "fright"
Peter Warren lol!
Peter Warren amazing
brilliant. ...and true
that's a stretch....
@Patrick Barrett: /r/ & /l/ are *two different phonemes* in English. You, on the other hand, do not distinguish them & interpret them as two allophones of one phonemes /ɺ/.
Facts don't care about your feelings Conservatives.................... tough luck!!!
stephan dijk so did you watch the video ?
You feeling afraid, Stephan? You need a safe space?
D 4353 aww are you scared of the trans people? It's okay we understand you can't help it
Perfect time to pull that quote out
D 4353 There being two sexes is a fact. Gender is something slightly different.
Ignorance leads to fear.
Fear leads to hatred.
Drm R WRONG the quote is "Fear is the path to the darkside. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering
if that's the case, how come the vast majority of scientists are liberal???
Drm R
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering...
-yoda
Patrick Barrett why are you here? And why are you so afraid of being called afraid?
Patrick Barrett : If you were the least bit bit smart, you would have written: 'stupidity leads to liberalism'. Think about it. At least try.
“Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.” - Yoda
Another Agnostic
And as a result of Yoda's philosolhy, the Jedi were destroyed.
Destroyed by the guy that gave into his fear and allowed a dictator to rise to protect his wife. Anakin was taken advantage of his fear by a literal politician!
The1980Philip that is also, by the way, a work of fiction. Let’s not forget that detail
The1980Philip Not exactly. Fear let the Jedi to go with the flow and become involved in the Clone Wars. Yoda even admits this years later in the Rebels series.
Heres a question to all of you. Is being afraid of government/change/etc bad? what are the benefits of being afraid? its much easier to be ignorant and just think that the other side is just stupid, or mental. Think
Conservatives have brains?
This is news to me
So conservatives are pussies? It all makes sense now. They need lobotomies. LOL
yes. they tend to be wiser, because the conservatives often look things up for themselves.
Anyonomus a Wiser? LOL
It was the most controversial and stunning find in this study. The scientists were perplexed and flabbergasted, but insist their findings were conclusive.
Can't count how many times I've made the argument that right-wingers have fear-based opinions. Last time I did that, to a right-winger in a comment section, he responded with "You're the one who brought up fear, so you must be the one who is afraid". Solid retort.
hahahahahahahaha!!!!
Explains the "Us first and then Them" mentality
that's just called nationalism which is a healthy way to think
The problem with their brand of nationalism though is it doesn't include everyone in the nation, only people they believe are "pulling themselves up by their bootstraps"
like there are only two genders there is only one brand of nationalism
_ its not nationalism its fear of change, fear of losing, fear of anyone different or of different beliefs, its not nationalism its a hoarding mentality exacerbated by people telling them they are going to die otherwise
not wanting to lose our country to other people who don't share our culture by wanting a strong border is nationalism
That thing that supries me from this study is that conservatives have brains
*conservatives have SHIT for brains.
Fixed it for you.
Is it necessarily a brain if it only processes fear?
Mauris We get it you’re scarred of the brown people. Want some hand sanitizer?
lol!
So that's why you guys lost so badly in 2016. You need to get with it.
And of course, liberals are hardly free from all anxieties, we just don't let them influence our worldview so much.
Right, I think there's an underlying desire in many cases, to demystify, to understand so that we can begin to approach control over those things that frighten us.
I mean, i'm liberal and i have an anxiety disorder that very much influences my life, but that's different from irrational fear of "the unknown". My brain gives me panic attacks if the wind changes but i've never been afraid of the unknown because i've always been taught to learn therefore erasing ignorance.
WarlockofWords Channel
when your talking about personality
they tend to be more industrious than liberals and liberals tend to be open
neurotic people tend to authoritarians
ignorance is bliss
liberals=blissful ignorance
OF COURSE!!!
Andrew Deen top comment
OF COURSE!!! IT'S SO OBVIOUS
I read this in Cenk's voice for sure
Andrew Deen ii
Aw you beat me to it!
Problem is that their fear is more likely to turn into violence and yet they are MASTERS of Psychological Projection
MamaMysteriouspgh I suggest reading Prof. Bob Altemeyer's on-line book on his research of authoritarians, as this explains teapartier thinking even more in-depth.
You are afraid of nazis, afraid of your own strength, afraid of guns and afraid of admitting your primal self as a source of morality. It's not as if Democrats aren't driven by fear.
The right should change their color from red to white for two reasons. One most of them are white and two because it is the color of snowflakes.
It's also the color of the flag of surrender. Fitting. lol
They also can't ever admit when they're empirically, objectively wrong.
Ever!
That requires intellectual courage.
Conservative = Primitive.
To be honest both sides have down syndrome. Liberals think having more than 2 genders is a thing and confuse Trump not letting illegal immigrants through the border as being racist. And conservatives think that guns solve all issues sometimes.
For the study in itself I don't believe in it really at all because I've seen conservatives that have way more courage than any liberal ever could hence people in Afghanistan or other places who are mostly conservative fight people with 7.62 AK47's and have TOW missiles including dirty bombs, etc. Majority of liberal I see say they ain't doing shit while sitting on there ass at home eating cheeto's typing bullshit on the computer about retarded shit like politics lol.
philajfran I'm not going to have a argument about politics as that's cancer also with people joining the army a higher percentage of that is conservatives. I'm going to block you though so I don't have to see your response as both sides of the spectrum are extremely toxic.
@Dank Memes - I think you are misinterpreting the study. Of course a higher %age of conservatives will join the military, they are afraid of and therefore want to kill the "enemy". Joining military does not necessarily equate to courage. I'm guessing you have some connection to the military which would make you see it that way.
philajfran cause hes a con and cons are always spot on backwards..
Duncan Bleak it also requires willpower, patience, discipline, mental fortitude, etc, which clearly none of these toxic triggered trumptard trolls have even a speck of, the ones that do have either left or been ousted from the reich wing
Makes sense , fear destroys sympathy, empathy , logic and reasoning . Most conservatives are devoid of those traits .
Anxious people have more empathy, people who are incapable of feeling fear like psychopaths feel no empathy.
phila, liberals are very into diversity when it comes to skin color etc... the only diversity that matters is intellectual diversity. Shouting people down from talking, Violent protesting, labeling everyone that isnt like them racist, etc. Liberals are very friendly to everyone in their party. Black conservatives to them = race traitors, mob mind instead of individual thought.
Sure, but you’d have to admit that liberals could be too idealistic and therefore unconsciously biased as well. On the extreme end you could have blind, self-righteous zeal from these same socially empathetic and reasonable people, who fail to recognize the values all humans share. Listen to the study described in the video, how would you categorize people who are split between flying and being invincible, and how concrete of a conclusion can we make from that? At best it proves our partisanship are the product of deeply-rooted psychological differences that are, to a degree, no fault of our own; just instinct.
This is one of the only reason people hunt animals anymore they want a sense of power when they're nothing but cowards.
agreed
It's often poor ass people trying to feed their family, you ignorant schlub.
interesting, bc I used to be conservative. as I treated chronic anxiety, depression, and paranoia, I also became more liberal.
and the conservative brain can't detect hypocrisy
uhm, they can't detect it because they don't really understand what it is and why they do it all the time.
My dad, a John Wayne-type "tough guy", is afraid of soooo many things.
- Immigrants and anyone with darker skin
- Dogmen (a mythical cryptid like sasquatch)
- Zombie apocalypse
- Women
... the list goes on and on. Whenever I talk to him, all he wants to talk about are the things he is afraid of. Of course, he would never admit to being afraid.
This explains a lot. For example, this explains things like the heavy reliance and/or heavy obsessions with guns, crying destruction of the second amendment just because some people want sensible gun regulations, clinging desperately to the comfort of old ways, afraid of change, etc.
Did the study reveal that they lack empathy too?
I think that this may be secondary. That is, fear (especially extreme fear) overrides empathy or subdues it in most situations (unless you are dealing with someone that could be described as a "hero" in old books and manuscripts...)
That's coming next. They are still isolating the empathy gene in introverted and extroverted. It reads a little different in hose two types of wiring. They are straightening that out and then it will be presented. Can tell you we are seeing empathy gene highest in Canada and Finland. About 78% average. Low in places like Saudia Arabia- not even to 20% of the overall population. . America is interesting because it is a country of immigrants but so far it looks about like Trump's support numbers. About 40% lack it in America. But those are preliminary. I think we should test everyone for it and bar those who don't have it from public office.
Leeloo- no he's right. You either have the empathy gene or not. And yes you are right that fear can override it but we need to get to the basis of it. For example, I was acquainted with a girl here in Denver who was shot at school a few years ago. She rode jumping horses as did I and I'd see her at shows. When her school was attacked, she walked out of a room to protect her classmates and tried very gently to talk with the young man she knew from a math class. She gently told him that she cared about him and truly loved him and she would stand by him and help him and please don't shoot. She slowly walked toward him with her arms outstretched offering to help him and please put the gun down. When she dot right in front of him, he shot her. Knowing her she was strong win empathy. She was sweet to everyone and didn't like to win because someone else had to lose. So there are levels to this stuff. Those with he empathy gene and extroverted in spades really should get some additional home room classes on reality of not being able to stop every tragedy and those introverted should some extra home room classes on self confidence. Hey get internally knocked easy and shy away. The kids without the empathy gene tthat have a lot of fear and pain really need help. These are he kids that shoot up schools we think. They are totally scorched from reality and suffer terribly internally.
My spellcheck is drunk again. Sorry
Vee K, stop assigning a gene to everything. That's not how it works.
Most of everything in our day to day lives is human behaviour. It's something that is learned, & can be changed.
When you start saying 'everything is genetic', you are implying that it's just how people are born, & cannot be changed, so don't bother trying.
Fear is the path to the dark side. - Yoda
Dan the Man “You don’t know the power of the dark side” - Darth Vader
Quantum Physics cdefines it a the lowest negative energy frequency in the Universe.
I've know of the "state if mind" for some time and it causes me to feel immense Empathy for those with this thought syndrome and naturally apply Compassion.
"a Sociologist/Behavioralist"
Hatred is just fear of what they don't understand.
Patrick Barrett Without naming names, describe your third world. What does it look like?
I was raised in a Christian household. And indeed, I remember being profoundly frightened every night before prayers. Remember, a single unrepented sin sends you to hell for eternity. Christianity is definitely child abuse.
David Kray - Well, that’s not Christianity. You definitely experienced spiritual abuse if that was how you were raised and I’m sure it was under the Christian mantle. But that’s not Christianity.
k2datrack - Wow, I’m sorry you went through that and wish you ongoing healing and goodness in your life.
Ditto to Mr. Kray.
That’s horrible. Teaching a child to be that irrationally afraid of anything, is abusive.
That's the key to "conservatism" --- -*_religion._* Ever notice how they, just like pastors, resort to double-speak nearly every time they're confronted with the *truth?*
David Kray . Are you really that stupid to view that as representative of "Christianity"?
"Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering." - Yoda
Yeaaaah. We kinda figured that out a long time ago.
Are they 40% smaller?
Same size, but the area responsible for fear takes resources from the rest of the brain - kind of like having a sports car where the air bag compartment takes half of the engine space.
Piotr
Forget that, since when do conservatives have brains.
Yes. Why do you think they're so fond of firearms? ...and what does that have to do with their brains?
@DriveInFreak: I will be honest: don't know if that was sarcasm or not. Just to be safe, I will answer with a rhetorical question: because guns make them feel safe?
Hold up one second...
Conservatives have brains?
AfroSlacker Yup. But you don't
K G who needs brains with a big mouth
Yes they have 1 neron it is for fight or flight
Just like TYT. This is one study done. It's amazing that people just wait for the one study that pushes their agenda.
God bless everyone.
This makes perfect sense if you've ever watched FOX News.
I read this study theres more to it but its fascinating none the less, it definitely makes alot of sense
So Trump voters are nothing more then a bunch of swamp wimps? ♥️
AwesomeBlackDude no their just pussies
In what way does it make sense? because I read that study as well and its methodology is strictly agenda driven. Most of it were huge misconceptions about the conservative ideology.
QuEsT X. BOXING, NEWS , ENTERTAINMENT - They're just pussies? Well that explains Trump's interest in them. 😄
MrMalcolm900, I can tell immediately this study is frivolous. Most people exist in many places on the political spectrum. For example, someone may be liberal on abortion but conservative on guns. Also, they use guns as an example. Me owning a gun is not out of fear, it is accepting reality that there are bad people in the world. Just like when I lock my doors at night, I am not scared, just accepting reality. It is a safety net, no different than how liberals want more government for protection as a safety net.
Interesting study, but I guess my only gripe with it is that it assumes conservatives have brains at all
The reason it seems like they don't have brains sometimes is that fear can make people think the most irrational thoughts and do the most irrational things.
I understand your post is a more humorous response born from the frustration in dealing with conservatives, but sometimes we do need to step back and take a second look at things.
Well being pretty vile is not a way to bring both sides together now is it.
I think it might be that the have chicken brains and it is found in the id of Klux, they get together in a Klan and try to get a Klu. Kluxian Chicken heads
And I thought they were just intellectual f’in morons. I guess that’s still partly true if they fear everything.
This exact thing was talked about years ago in an episode of Through the Wormhole. There have been several studies around this.
Fear leads to anger
Anger leads to hate
Hate leads to suffering
Aside from politics, this is from my personal experience. This incident happened during my graduate school and years after. I had two cats. One was a couple of weeks, as a kitten, when I adopted him. I raised him, loved him. He was spoiled, pampered and was also the apple of my eye. Since I raised him so well, he had an unbelievable trust in people. He will go up to strangers, like the mailman, telephone repairman, and be extremely friendly with them. I will take him out to walk on a leash or a boat ride and the same thing happened; he was very friendly with everyone he met the very first time. He can melt anyone's heart with his beautiful personality. He had a trust that a human will not harm him - since I never harmed him.
Then I raised a feral cat. From the beginning, he was okay with me. I gave him food, love and all. But he was very hostile to most people. He will swat, hiss and attack them. In my assumption, that as a feral he was treated badly by humans in the street that he did not hesitate to show his hostility towards them. He also had an early demise from a stomach cancer.
This is what the study may indicate. Republicans as a child are prone to violence and all. They do not understand diplomacy and that words have the power to change the world. Note: Gandhi kicked the 200-year-old British monarchy out of India without firing a bullet. The only thing the Republicans and the conservatives understand is that physical violence. They think everything should be done with brutal force. This indicates why their base seems to be one the lowest tier on the I.Q. scale. All human beings have a cognitive bias to a certain extent. The problem with their base is they do not want to hear another point of view and more gullible and prone to believe in lies from a certain number of people(the cognitive bias reasoning). They can be very easily be manipulated.
I tend to lean right center on most issues and I am inclined to agree with the results of this study, at least in regards to those who are far right.
Yeah, especially the extreme ideas of the far-right, are nothing else but fight or flight responses that make no sense unless there's some kind of boogeyman to point at.
You left out " im afraid of science "
wahsus tah well acording to republicans "Ignorance is strength" oh wait that's George Orwell's book 1984
Wait Is it can't tell the difference
wahsus tah , got many genders are there already?
I’d take this study with a grain of salt.... like anything on tyt!
thomas Hooper You know, TYT only reported on it. They didn't fund it.
wahsus tah facts
I wouldn't believe a single word from tyt.
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to Conservative
Now we are afraid of being silenced
*The study makes 100% sense!*
... Accuracy
Ironically what would destroy that fear are the two things they fight against the hardest:
1)a resource based economy of shared luxury powred by automation and AI
2) transhumanism
fl00fydragon they’re just stupid people in general
Can't wait for my post-scarcity utopia.
Katrina L
Automation driven rbe was a desired outcome for notable engineers, scientists and philosophers including Stephen Hawking, Einstein, etc.
I'd call it more of a future possibility instead of a utopia
+fl00fydragon Well, that's why it's called a utopia. We should definitely be trying to converge to that, even if it's just one step at a time.
Katrina L utopia is an unreachable ideal
Because the rbe is logistically possible while not being perfect (just superior to the current system) it would be unfair to be called a utopia
Trump daddy makes them feel safe.
hope that's true. it should make them more liberal
AfroSlacker wrong it’s because trump is intelligent and knows how to get shit done.
A 'daddy' that is scared of personal sacrifice...and birds !
AfroSlacker True... and the biggest irony is that this dangerous fool should make them feel LESS safe.
However, conservatives are also happier even after fear.
Domesticated animals have no fear, so they are easier to kill and eat.
How do you measure happiness? You can't be this stupid. There are even studies that show that Democrats are more sympathetic and empathetic compared to conservatives.
@@dundundun430 Not happiness, but you can measure mental health, and liberals often do worse on that.
Sympathy Liberals have is different from that of Conservatives, but that does not mean one part is less empathic. People are naturally empathic, regardless of politics. Christians give more to charity and adopt more, while atheists are more pro welfare state. Both ways are ways to help.
I think Democrats have more sympathy for people that made mistakes (criminals, etc), while Conservatives are more empathic to people who want to improve themselves, but that is too subjective to measure.
People are rarely angry because theyre angry, its almost always backed by fear or feelings of abandonment so yeah, it makes sense. Lower empathy and higher levels of general fear. Its so sad and I have no idea how we can actually help them because they're really working against their own interests.
“Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself.”
I've been too busy to take time to watch TYT for the past month or two and I MISS YOU, CENK! The ONLY person I really, truly trust to give us the truth in what's happening in Washington. The crazier the country gets, the more I need my Cenk! ;o)
Debra Clinton, I hope ur being sarcastic. hes a nut job.
Ahmed Tarek, more like amused.
its ok to be afraid josh
They are betas, what's new?
deka360 Hmmmm....I don't come across too many liberal Alphas myself.
geo-george1 you must not know real people outside of social media. The only conservatives I know are poor and hate the educated liberal business owners in my town, Fayetteville N.C.. Sure OLD conservative money still exists around here but it's definitely not like it used to be. All the new businesses opening up are liberal yanks not the local yokels.
Zetas.
Gavin Sherlock
...That's not the last letter of the Greek Alphabet.
So that's it.... conservatives make fun of safe spaces because deep down they wish they could have one of their own...
Fear? No
Only disgust
Damn, I thought their fear was obvious lmao
Master Joe Kerr were not cave men
Master Joe Kerr who needs survival instincts in a civilized society in less that is american is not that civized because were are letting our conservative congressmen stand idly by as children are getting slaughtered also they probably hid some were when heard about or something guess what that's a survival instinct
Master Joe Kerr Then why is your party in shambles after the last year?
Oh yeah. Certainly surviving lol.
I think we need some hand sanitizer in the voting booths.
LOL!
your request was answered
this comment aged amazingly
Makes sense
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Damn I just realized TYT already has that in their description.
To be clear, I just saw a Ted talk about a girl, born in Norway but family is from the Punjab region. At age 15.5 years old she was forced to marry some guy back in Punjab province. She got away somehow, i cannot remember, but her sister had lit herself on fire b/c her husband was beating and raping her and the parents wouldn't do anything. An "honor suicide."
Another friend of hers was killed by her parents for not obeying. There is a problem for Muslim girls in UK and EU. We cannot ignore it any longer and we cannot have it in the US no matter of they are Muslim or Christian. I know there are a lot of Christian teen girls out there who are forced to marry their statutory rapist b/c they ended up pregnant and the parents want to "save face" or the man paid off the family to avoid jail, and went to a neighboring state where marriage to a 14 yr old is legal. I can't believe in 2018 we STILL have people who think THEIR "honor" is tied to their family or another person, it's so outdated and wrong! If interested in helping these women, find the Ted talk video b/c she has a non profit to help these women get out. She had to leave her family and never see them again.
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How is this shocking?
It’s also because of lack of education. The more educated someone becomes the less fearful they are. The more uneducated the individual is the more fearful they are
That is why American politics is a shit show. Never about real issues just scare tactics.
Peter Jackson Wrong.
@ Peter Jackson, not just American politics. German politics in the 30's was the same. UK politics is similar, especially with UKIP and nigel farrage. Brexit was propagated by fear mongering.
Richard O All great examples of how destructive and dangerous this type of politics is.
Wow! This is fascinating. I didn’t appreciate the cenk’s condescending tone, but the data itself was very interesting.
Its not just being "hard wired to feel fear" it's also their hard wired response to that fear. They focus out outward blame and low inner responsibility.
I don’t know why conservatives are getting mad at this lol. The studies are what they are-it’s not “propaganda”. It’s just as easy to look at the same study and call liberals “naïve”. It’s all about perspective.
Perhaps they're simply afraid to be identified as cowards, or any other label that might otherwise cause them to expect ostracization from their social groups. Ever notice a link between conservatism and over-compensatory behaviors such as machoism, closet homophobia, and virtue signalling (particularly in a religious context)? Perhaps it's just my imagination or the regional bubble I'm in, but living in a red state, it seems many of the conservative individuals around here are simply insecure; as if playing a character to fit in to the culture.
This video about a blog about a study is an affront to actual neuroscience, to the point of being offensively stupid.
So true
Very strange people, and they are allowed to have guns.
Matthew Dobbs they need the guns because they feel fear, I assume.
There is nothing wrong with being afraid...... it's what makes us human.....
it sounds right when i converse with conservative voters words of fear appear to be what drives them.
Yeah right. Brainwashed liberal students at universities need "safe spaces" for comfort and protection from big bad "free speech". "Law students at the University of Michigan were provided with a post-election “self-care with food and play” event, complete with “stress busting” activities like play dough, coloring books, legos, and bubbles. Columbia University’s Barnard College offered hot chocolate and coloring. The University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution, created a healing space: more coloring books, and also puppies."
Liberals can't handle other opinions. That's the TRUTH.
This makes perfect sense
Clyde Cerda does it though lol
It's not even close to accurate with most cases. It's the same as stereotyping then saying its not biased lol
It's not that they were born that way, they were shaped that way by early life. What I'm interested in is how this should shape the progressive message to make it more appealing to those who are fearful. They will unconsciously be drawn to that which alleviate their fear, which means if you can frame progressive values and policies such that they think these policies will make them safer, everyone wins.
So I take it this applies the world over. So the phrase blinded by fear basically sums up why people like this should not be allowed in politics. If you can’t make sensible decisions based on evidence, without doing it based on fear, then you should step out and let someone else who can take your place.
some may call it self preservation. dehumanizing and using eugenics as a way to shut down debate is nothing new from this channel.
Are the people running the study liberal? I'm guessing yes.
Cant wait to see what Alex Jones makes of this :D
The problem is that conservatives just think with their emotions, which is fear
Fear is one emotion. Empathy and compassion are also emotions which FEW conservatives express. Don't generalize about emotions when emotions are like a rainbow with a very wide spectrum of expressions.
Wow. It all makes sense now.
It could be that there is a stronger correlation between whether or not their parents are conservative and just teach that mentality to their children. At 4 years old, it is entirely possible that their parents have already installed quite a bit of the groundwork required for growing up a conservative, whether consciously or subconsciously. In other words, without them also looking into nature vs nurture, it is impossible to know which came first; inherit conservative tendencies or conservative indoctrination.
I added a comment a lot like yours before reading down the thread. I happen to be a professional astrologer (and teacher), and I've seen a lot of evidence that the sign of Capricorn, or those influenced by Saturn (as dominant in their birth chart which acts as a blueprint for the unfolding destiny in a manner that simulates the way the acorn carries the blueprint for the mature tree) almost always take on very fear-based conservative perspectives. The home and its atmosphere, particularly if the parents follow fundamentalist religions definitely shapes the child prior to age four.
You can't say that it is. The evidence does point to the sense of safety, regardless of unique unaltered behaviours, like the H1N1 experiment. You can't assume it's nurture or nature with that data (it probably is a bit of both), but you can definitely point to a fear/safety relation with these attitudes, and given the nature of these ideas, it makes sense.
Astrology is NOT a science. You're teaching bullshit.
Your screen name is accurate. It IS stupid to denounce a subject you know nothing about and have never studied. It's a metaphysical arena... where science meets the mystic arts.
+Sioux Rose Making shit up doesn't make it the "metaphysical arena" or "mystic arts". It's just bullshit.
Fear leads to Anger, Anger leads to Hatred, Hatred leads to ...suffering.
Um you could also make the arguement that the reason people support gun control is because they are overly fearful and feel they need to protect people from gun violence.
I bet they lack the part of the brain that allows empathy
"Conservative Brains" is a contradiction of terms.
You left out the part that showed liberals tend to learn about threats to lessen the negative impact. Conservatives tend to focus on the negative while liberals are more likely to be optimistic.
Liberals also want safe spaces and Pc culture.
Very projectioney, justin, if we are now getting scientific studies showing that the primary motivation of conservativism in the US is fear. The MAGARMY desperately just wants a safe space where the world is less scary, where the corporate masters can make the decisions for them and tell them who is going to hurt them next.
Justin M You call it safespaces and pc but others might say peaceful and common courtesy.
Villain Voice It's not really projection when I am in fact a centrist leaning left. It's simply an observation. It would be interesting to know the sample size of this and other studies that make these claims. Also note, I'm Australian and have no horse in this race. Clearly Trump is an idiot. But the MAGARMY as you put it, never heard that term, of course wants a world that is less scary. Liberals want the same thing. Bottom line, it seems absurd to me that this study is seemingly suggesting that political affiliation is somehow genetic? Or at least be determined from a very young age Come on.
Jrsydvl I don't call it safespaces, that's a left term. PC has been around for decades, so who knows who coined it. I refer to safe spaces as thought bubbles. Spaces where any opposing idea is locked out. So much for diversity. But we all know diversity doesn't mean diversity of thought.
I've noticed the same with dogs. In my limited experience more aggressive dogs were afraid of bigger dogs as puppies (2 - 6 months).
Checks out with my personal experiences as a conservative turned liberal. Grew up in a conservative household, went liberal as soon as I left, probably had been for a while. Regardless, that mindset, and those genetics, stuck with me through my life.
Why am I so proactive about safety? Of course, it's _exactly_ because I feel threatened; because I am afraid of what will happen if a negative event occurs, and I'm not ready for it. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, and my girl playfully teases me for being paranoid.
Taken to its extreme, this mindset is how you get doomsday preppers, conspiracy theorists, and white supremacists that fear people who are different.
But something to keep in mind is that this conservative fear is a *PERSONAL* fear; a completely self-interested fear. This is why there is so much ambivalence among conservatives, and they don't care until something personally affects them. Fear of losing their job, regardless of how unlikely it is, affects them much more than the less obvious, less personal fear of rising sea levels, or pollution affecting someone else.
Yep. They can't t live without their guns cuz they're so scared.
Karen Shaub And you can't be in a car without wearing a seatbelt cause you're scared
Yes, I agree that those who gravitate towards conservatives are more fearful. However, What I understand is that those who are conservatives are those who are fearful but have not been forced to question their fears by EXPOSURE. That’s the problem. That, and the problem, issue, of privilege and what their expectations have been. So sad!
edith bunker ah, and what is it that I need exposure too?
We need to love them to genuinely listen to them, understand and maybe help them to see what has happened to them... baby steps
Can you see the point people make when they say liberals are smug and condescending?
philajfran What a truncated perception you have of people of different opinions from yourself. Conservatives are people with real concerns just like you.
Sweejit a person who is safe and willing to help can be seen as smug if they aren't grounded in a genuine commitment to serving all our quality of life.
We are all people with valid perspectives, fear just often helps people make counter productive decisions without considering the big picture.
conservatives will never accept this study because their fear is beyond logic their extreme position on guns is a classic example they really fear people of color they want guns pointed at us historically conservatives have always been on the wrong side of history
You mean like, "heaven, hell," abortion and homosexuality?
Interesting study! Although, as science major, you have to look at the statistical significance of the study and delve well into the brain imaging studies; mostly those that show brain activity like fMRI and EEG. On the other hand, findings do make sense.
As everyone knows: fear is the mind killer. It s the "Little death" that brings total obliteration!
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to... et cetera.
We have NOTHING to fear, except FEAR itself!
....I have an anxiety disorder and I'm the leftist person I know... the hell is their excuse?
Johanna Roberts I have an anxiety disorder as well. Im pretty left. I think specificly it's the fear of physical harm.
I have 3 forms of panick disorder and I'm considered right, I guess far right in some cases. I don't see your point like at all.
This is pretty obvious. They're so scared 😳
Of course conservatives are scared of letting liberals run the country. Look at all the cities run by democrats. Detroit, San Francisco, Chicago, etc. It's a shit show.
You could also spin this the other way around. Liberal/progressive minds can also be too welcoming and trusting of others, even to their own detriment. Being aware of this can make us all a little more inclined to listen to the other side. We all have different things we bring to the table. No one is more right than the other.
Conservatives help us to be more cautious and remind us what has worked in the past.
Liberals help us take in new ideas and take risks.(The rise of social justice warriors)
According to Wikipedia, the amygdala is shown in research to perform a primary role in the processing of memory, decision-making and emotional responses, the amygdalae are considered part of the limbic system.
Being afraid is one thing. Claiming you're the tough guy in the room when it's clear you aren't, is another.
There can be more than one tough guy.
thisnotjesus of course there can be, but Conservatives will swear up and down that theyre the tough ones and that liberals are the snowflakes. The reality is that both sides are quite human and are simply sensitive over different issues in different ways.
Thumbs down not because of the study, but because of how it was reported. It is not productive to make fun of conservatives through mockery. This video would not be helpful if shown to a conservative. If they are real issues of fear, those people should not be made fun of.
Richard Crawford
Exactly!!! I'm a liberal myself and making fun of conservatives and making them feel stupid or irrational doesn't change they're minds at all it can actually drive them further right.
philajfran
Key word "most" if you can change at least a few minds then that's a victory.
phila, "most" "most" where do u get most from? any study? anything to stop me from passing you off as a bigot that likes to label and group everyone you dont agree with instead of talking to them individually, and finding that- NO ONE IS THE SAME, you should NEVER use "MOST" liar
AS A CONSERVATIVE, I THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORDS
Same. I absolutely trust the study, however I wouldn’t trust a nonscientist to interpret the results, especially if the interpretation mocks his/her adversary. Even as a liberal, I give this video a thumbs down
Cowards 😂😂😂
"Fear is the path to the dark side…fear leads to anger…anger leads to hate…hate leads to suffering.”. Suffering leads to conservatism.
I don't think that it's Conservatives who are afraid.
It's people who are always afraid become Conservatives.
That was basically the point.
Knowing is half the battle.
Interesting study but useless analysis of it by Cenk here. Based on the same data you can turn things around and argue that liberals have a underdeveloped 'fear centre of the brain' leading them to behavior and positions that don't properly take into account necessary self-preservation. What is a more interesting look at the information from this study is to take a step back and look at how different hardwired attitudes towards life which have developed through evolution are reflected into contemporary political landscape. What is the role for these different biological attitudes for social cohesion? You could make a argument that through evolution there is a certain diversity in what we would these days call political ideology, these different attitudes to personal safety, community etc arguably have had a important role in the functioning of society through the ages. The question is where that leaves us now, many contemporary societal problems seem to suggest a certain shift has emerged between the functioning of our biological development through evolution and modern day society, look at the reproduction statistics for an example. I'd suggest some of the examples of political excess, extremism, we see these days might be found in understanding this 'gap' , if the biological functions no longer function in their normal way within society, or through modern understanding and use of media are being manipulated (politics of fear) radical developments can be expected, now with the new knowledge we are gaining, what do we do with it? Argue that this biological make-up is a flaw, and correct it chemically? Maybe we are getting to know ourselves to well, acting In persona Christi.
If you do not understand scientific processes then turning the data around makes sense. The thing with being human is that an ability to live in a large range of environments is clearly an advantage, Humans are also able to live in large groups. Not everyone in those large groups have the same view of the world. So there is a mechanism for people to get along. This study suggests one such mechanism. You should probably read a little wide and not just read things that reinforce established prejudices before arguing about biological differences.
@nelson this was more or less the point that I was making but I am guessing you did not read beyond my first sentence. I thought the way the study was presented by Cenk here lacked imagination as he was just using it as a stick to beat conservatives with, I'm not conservative myself but if anything this shows the complexity of humans living together in groups and I was making the same argument as you are, there are reasons why people are different for society to function as it does. I do wonder however how badly this knowledge could be misused. Look around at the comments here, presenting people with a biological inclination for conservatism as having some kind of defect, that kind of thinking is pretty dangerous.
Bas Actually, you can't without a leap in logic that's about as wide as the Grand Canyon.
Bas Most of all, idiot, you tried to equate the instinct of self-preservation with a response to fear. That's a fallacy of causation but you're too stupid to see how you made the mistake
Relating fear as a mechanism of self-preservation is quite supported by the relevant literature you'll find. I was not, as you seem to think trying to make a argument for understanding the results of the study in this way. The study shows a relation between people who are pre-disposed to fearfulness and a inclination towards conservative positions. Which is both interesting and not complete news, its a relation that has been showed before. All I was trying to illustrate was my opinion that the way it was presented here in this video by Cenk was one sided and leaping to conclusions, I felt that it was presented as if this was some kind of 'defect' relating conservative political positions to nothing more then a biological deficiency. Which I happen to find a dangerous over simplification of what the study presents.
If you think I'm some kind of conservative trying to defend my ideology you are wrong. Neither is true. I do wonder what your intentions are, hot headed are we? Going around calling people idiots because you don't agree with them. Not very classy.
You mean that in a world of danger, conservatives are more likely to register danger? And you treat them like they are disturbed? You really have your head up your colon, Cenk.
Jonathan Haidt, a psychologist that studies differences between political groups, has said that he has moved closer to the right after studying the differences between political mindsets.
Jonathan Haidt's work has been heavily criticized by other psychologists.
BJAdamBarry you sound scared
Sebastian Lundh spoken like a true coward!
Sebastian Lundh, in a world of danger? Lol this is Earth not Pandora.
Conservative checklist: Bible-check! Gun-check! Pearl's to clutch-check! Tinfoil hat-check! Hand sanitizer-Check!! Reality check-.......... Nope!
When we remove knowledge, what fills the void tends to be negative.
The difference between conservative and liberal in the US is empathy and the ability to understand that the worst among us could one day be us.
If anyone is interested in the psychology of liberals and conservatives then you should look into Jonathan Haidt and Jordan Peterson’s work in it.
Two men whos work has been heavily criticized by other psychologists. For engaging in pseudo science and making up facts without facts to back them up.
BJAdamBarry. What do they say that isn’t based in fact? Is it that liberals are higher in openness and creativity or that conservatives are higher in consciousness and orderliness? All of they’re studies are heavily researched.
Thanks man, I'll check those out. Study's posted online isn't enough to scratch my curiosity .
Quinten M I love cats btw
Quinten M what does it mean to be higher in consciousness