So, the amygdala doesn’t just impact fear response, it also does anger, anxiety, and stress. An overactive amygdala negatively impacts your ability to think clearly.
Fear is, famously, an excellent impetus for rational decision-making. (/s just in case)
Fear and rage force you to use unreliable heuristics instead of critical thinking and analysis resulting in poorer choices, it’s why so much propaganda relies on triggering those emotional states to get you to stop thinking and accept the message. Less fear in decision making is a beneficial mutation.
HA HA take that COMMIE you’re braver than me due to your genetic superiority! ^oh ^wait
the brain is plastic, so it seems far more likely to me that being in conservative circles causes the amygdala to enlarge than the opposite
I’m a leftist and I have an anxiety disorder! Checkmate, conservatives
Got no idea about the size of my amygdala, but I’m really good at being anxious and depressed. Small but mighty I guess
conservatives have a hyerptrophied amygdala due to always constantly feeling fear.
The better educated you are, the more left leaning you tend to be:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/Conservatives tend to be dismissive of science and empirical evidence:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160713172717.htmHigher verbal IQ correlates with liberal attitudes:
https://www.psypost.org/verbal-iq-predicts-political-participation-and-liberal-attitudes-twice-as-strongly-as-performance-iq/Whatever this dumb shit is, is a reaction to that. As usual, they project their own shortcomings on their enemies.
In any case, what it comes down to is basic empathy and morality. If you care for others, you tend to vote left. If you care for only yourself and your self-interests, you vote right. There is no debating that, it’s stated right there in the fucking ideology.
I’m autistic and have an oversized amygdala but that doesn’t stop me from being leftist. I just feel compassion for everyone human. Still struggling with the compassion for animals that I eat.
Still struggling with the compassion for animals that I eat.
Drop acid and watch Samsara
ironically i fear the SHIT out of right wingers, because they seem to actively want me to suffer before i die, for the crime of not being able to have a job
Still struggling with the compassion for animals that I eat
not trying to preach but in my experience the only thing that soothes your conscience once you’re to this point is to go vegan
Nice to see conservatives were able to rebrand the “conservatives have over-active amygdala and are scared of everything for no reason” articles
I’m afraid of urban density, diversity, genders and social progress. That makes me superior.
Fear is the mind killer. Long live the fighters.
Crazy that they boast about having an overactive amygdala but deny it when people say they are acting crazy and paranoid.
Also, side note: conflation of liberal and leftist as if they’re the same is kind of a pet peeve of mine. They are very much not the same thing. Those who know know.
What’s this “mutational load in the DNA” nonsense supposed to mean?
They probably intend to convey physical degeneration due to too many mutations
You know the super mutants in fallout? It’s like that
a pseudoscience way of saying, science-ey terms.
Fun fact: Conservativism can be linked to Lead and/or Mercury exposure
Or brain damage
