result #112894 - DO ADDICTS OF PARTISANSHIP NEED REHAB TO PREVENT GETTING HIGH?

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DO ADDICTS OF PARTISANSHIP NEED REHAB TO PREVENT GETTING HIGH?

[+] serious ballot by passiveson
ACTIVE Mar 09,2007 - Sun Mar 08, 09

Behavioral data showed a pattern of emotionally biased reasoning: partisans denied obvious contradictions for their own candidate that they had no difficulty detecting in the opposing candidate. Importantly, in both their behavioral and neural responses, Republicans and Democrats did not differ in the way they responded to contradictions for the neutral control targets, such as Hanks, but Democrats responded to Kerry as Republicans responded to Bush.

While reasoning about apparent contradictions for their own candidate, partisans showed activations throughout the orbital frontal cortex, indicating emotional processing and presumably emotion regulation strategies. There also were activations in areas of the brain associated with the experience of unpleasant emotions, the processing of emotion and conflict, and judgments of forgiveness and moral accountability.

Notably absent were any increases in activation of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain most associated with reasoning (as well as conscious efforts to suppress emotion). The finding suggests that the emotion-driven processes that lead to biased judgments likely occur outside of awareness, and are distinct from normal reasoning processes when emotion is not so heavily engaged, says Westen, director of clinical psychology at Emory who led the study.

Political parties harness neural wiring that was probably selected for to encourage tribal solidarity and mutual defense of the tribe. Today it motivates people to defend positions and actions taken by the leaders of their political faction. The human mind was not selected for by evolution to be a perfect reasoning machine.

I feel sorry for the partisans. They are basically drug addicts. But I have greater sympathy for the rest of us who suffer from their actions just as we suffer from the actions of drug addicts.

Do Addicts Of Partisanship Need Rehab To Prevent Getting High?

No	4
War On Partisan Addicts	3
Send 'Em To Rehab	2
No, Impeach Them	0

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COMMENTS:
Voted : War On Partisan Addicts
No wonder there are so many stupid laws!

by passiveson on Fri Mar 09, 07 3:17am [+]

Voted : Send 'Em To Rehab
The problem might require a very large rehab.

by skylab on Fri Mar 09, 07 5:13pm [+]

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