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The Politics of Dreaming

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Political liberals are more likely to remember their dreams than conservatives.
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Conservatives and Liberals, Different planets.

Conservatives and Liberals, Different planets. | Science News | Scoop.it

From brain scans we can conclude that politicians of a different ideology live in different worlds. This is relevant since it significantly hinders a unified policy.


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Scientist Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady and Economic Liberalism

Scientist Margaret Thatcher: The Iron Lady and Economic Liberalism | Science News | Scoop.it

hatcher, played by Meryl Streep, who won the Best Actress Oscar for her portrayal, responds: “People don’t think any more. They feel . . . D’you know, one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than thoughts and ideas.”

The scene, written by playwright Abi Morgan, displays Thatcher’s inflexible conservatism and her perceived emotional hardness, but it can also be interpreted in light of her scientific education – and the potential impact this analytic training had on her political life.

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Nature, nurture and liberal values

Nature, nurture and liberal values | Science News | Scoop.it

Biology determines our behaviour more than it suits many to acknowledge. But people—and politics and morality—cannot be described just by neural impulses

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The Left and the Right: Physiology, Brain Structure and Function, and Attentional Differences

The Left and the Right: Physiology, Brain Structure and Function, and Attentional Differences | Science News | Scoop.it

Here is a list of peer reviewed papers that I’ve found that only discuss liberal-conservative differences in brain structure and function, in physiology, or in the kinds of stimuli that attract attention. And of course this is only one small area of research on liberal-conservative differences.

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Your Brain Scans Can Reveal How Politically Liberal or Conservative You Are

Your Brain Scans Can Reveal How Politically Liberal or Conservative You Are | Science News | Scoop.it

When presented with the same set of facts, how can both sides feel so certain that they are correct?

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Understanding the Ideological Divide Between Liberals and Conservatives: Is it Possible for Us to Get Along? |

Understanding the Ideological Divide Between Liberals and Conservatives: Is it Possible for Us to Get Along? | | Science News | Scoop.it

Journalist Chris Mooney discusses his new book, "The Republican Brain: The Science of Why They Reject Science -- and Reality."

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Your Brain is Automatic. You Are Free.

Your Brain is Automatic. You Are Free. | Science News | Scoop.it

We're not prisoners of our neural networks, either. "We can study cars and all their physical relationships and know exactly how they work," explains Gazzinga. "It in no way prepares us to understand traffic when they all get together and start interacting."

Clearly, there's a balance between seeing people either as deterministic robots or as entirely in control of everything they do. "The way I sum it up is that brains are automatic, but people are free because people are joining the social group and in that group are laws to live by. We can understand brains to the nth degree, but it’s not going to, in any way, interfere with the fact that taking responsibility in a social network is done at that level."

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Jonathan Haidt Decodes the Tribal Psychology of Politics

Jonathan Haidt Decodes the Tribal Psychology of Politics | Science News | Scoop.it

In March, Haidt will publish The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Pantheon). By laying out the science of morality—how it binds people into "groupish righteousness" and blinds them to their own biases—he hopes to drain some vitriol from public debate and enable conversations across ideological divides.

Hugo Gonzalez's comment, May 5, 2014 9:30 PM
The legalizing of gay marriage is a big issue that is still giving many issues to many of the states of the US. Some of the states have easily agreed to allow gay marriage while others are refusing to let that happen because it goes against everything they believe or have been taught. Mixing religion with politics is not a good thing because it leads to lawsuits that no one has the time or the money to spend on.
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The biology of politics: Liberals roll with the good, conservatives confront the bad

The biology of politics: Liberals roll with the good, conservatives confront the bad | Science News | Scoop.it
From cable TV news pundits to red-meat speeches in Iowa and New Hampshire, our nation's deep political stereotypes are on full display: Conservatives paint self-indulgent liberals as insufferably absent on urgent national issues, while liberals say...
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