This article from last year sprang to mind while thinking about progressives' indifference to the videos about Planned Parenthood's atrocities, Liberal or conservative? Brain responses to disgusting images help reveal political leanings. From the article:
In a brain scanner, participants were shown disgusting images, such as dirty toilets or mutilated carcasses, mixed with neutral and pleasant images, such as landscapes and babies.
Afterward, the subjects took a standard political ideology inventory, answering questions about how often they discuss politics and whether they agreed or disagreed with hot-button topics such as school prayer and gay marriage.
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, scientists from the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute — in collaboration with researchers from University College London, Rice University, the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, and Yale University — recorded brain activity of the subjects responding to the images.
Responses to disgusting images could predict, with 95 percent to 98 percent accuracy, how a person would answer questions on the political survey. ...
Conservatives tend to have more magnified responses to disgusting images, but scientists don’t know exactly why, Montague said.
Read the rest of the article for some theories about why that is.
This helps to understand why progressives seemed so unconcerned about the atrocities committed by Kermit Gosnell and how disinterested they are now in the revelations exposed by the videos of the Planned Parenthood personnel. They conjure up a mental image, then yawn.
In any event, it's nice to see a psychology study that doesn't simply try to reinforce the left's desire to brand those who disagree with them as having a mental disorder.
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