Ok, let's not beat around the bush. This story is going to cause the nutjobs to come out in full force. Basically, there was a study at NYU and UCLA that showed differences in the brains of liberals and conservatives.
Analyzing the data, Sulloway said liberals were 4.9 times as likely as conservatives to show activity in the brain circuits that deal with conflicts, and 2.2 times as likely to score in the top half of the distribution for accuracy.
Sulloway said the results could explain why President Bush demonstrated a single-minded commitment to the Iraq war and why some people perceived Sen. John F. Kerry, the liberal Massachusetts Democrat who opposed Bush in the 2004 presidential race, as a "flip-flopper" for changing his mind about the conflict.
Based on the results, he said, liberals could be expected to more readily accept new social, scientific or religious ideas.
Lead author David Amodio, an assistant professor of psychology at New York University, cautioned that the study looked at a narrow range of human behavior and that it would be a mistake to conclude that one political orientation was better. The tendency of conservatives to block distracting information could be a good thing depending on the situation, he said.
So in other words, when you need a task done no matter what, you grab a conservative. When you need a new way of thinking, you ask a liberal.
Ahh...I can smell the hate mail arriving in my inbox as we speak.
Travis
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