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.
Conservatives don’t know anything about the person they voted for. They don’t know anything about how their government functions. They don’t know anything about their Constitution.
I promise they don’t know what an amygdala is or what it does.
For the curious ones, from Psychology Today:
“A larger amygdala is primarily associated with increased anxiety, heightened emotional reactivity, and stress-related disorders, often acting as a hyper-active “threat detector” Symptoms frequently include persistent fearfulness, depression, irritability, and hypervigilance, as the brain over-processes neutral stimuli as threats.”
Whoever made the original meme is an absolute moron.
FWIW, wp:Amygdala.
I’m a leftist and I have an anxiety disorder! Checkmate, conservatives
OMG they are so detached from reality that they are bragging about being terrified?
I’m guessing they think it helps them wake up and see the truth that they are being exploited on, while they see people with a smaller amygdala as like mindless sheep that just takes in any info and takes that as doctrine.
The thing that they don’t consider though, is that fear and anger is often a form of control.
It’s because they think we take in information the same way they do.
The process in which they construct understanding:
- Feel something (id)
- Come up with an explanation that satisfies id. (Super Ego)
- End process
How real understanding is best constructed:
- Feel something
- Come up with an explanation that satisfies id.
- Ego passes the explanation over to Super Ego.
- Super Ego looks for any aspect of the explanation unsupported by objective fact.
- If a gap of knowledge is discovered, ask why recursively until you cannot ask why any more.
- Super Ego passes explanation back to id via Ego again.
- Id tells you if the explanation feels like it’s bulletproof.
- Go to sleep because that was a lot of hard cognitive work and you deserve it, and the other person didn’t do any of this work.
- Understand that the other person that opposes you likely didn’t work as hard as you to disprove yourself.
- Listen to them call you lazy for not doing the work.
- Present Day
You can’t change minds if you don’t know how their minds work.
Ah, the typical nazi idea of correlating random body measurements with complex behavioral and emotional patterns.
You mean the Brit/American eugenics idea.
Hitler was a great fan of these racists so he sent a dr Mengele to study the superior Nordic race at Carnegie’s American Eugenics Society.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Eugenics_Society_Exhibit_(1930s)._Image_from_Wellcome_Library.jpg
“I’m afraid more often and that’s why I’m a terrible person!”
“I’m more scared than you!” Is a weird flex.
I’M AFRAID OF EVERYTHING LIKE A REAL MAN!
That would actually make a lot of sense.
And it’s wild to brag about it.Funny how conservatives aren’t afraid of disease. You probably need a decent frontal lobe for that.
They are so afraid that they pretend to ignore diseases all together.
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.
Just like alligators. They’re so ornery because they have all them teeth and no toothbrush
Well looks like mama was wrong!
I understood that reference
Which should mean that it would be implicated in conservative thought processes, being as they are so fear-and-anger-driven in everything they do.
it’s a bit of a “chicken and egg” problem, but yes studies show that conservatives typically have an overactive amygdala. now, is it overactive because they’re conservative, or are they conservative because it’s overactive? hard to say.
I’d say it’s the first one. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen conservatives that had no brain whatsoever.
we cant give in to the thinkers!
No worries, conservatives have no use for thinking anyways.
Hi, I’m a coward bc I’m not a leftist isn’t the flex you think it is.
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.
How can you not mention the awesome studies on bullshit.
https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/download/6565/6565.pdf/
Conservatives fall for bullshit.
I would also add that somewhere between 21% - 25% of the American population is functionally illiterate. This means that people can read short messages, texts and headlines if they focus, but are basically incapable of comprehending and internalizing written material more abstract or complicated than a meme or tweet.
The far-right MAGA conservatives who are ride-or-die with Trump no matter what happens also seem to line up pretty close to this percentage. I don’t think anyone has done a direct study of a connection or even correlation, but I would put money on the bet that the Venn diagram is a perfect circle.
About a third of the illiterates in the US just don’t speak English. They may be literate just fine in their native tongue, but that rate captures English literacy.
I’m not saying that that number is wrong per se but it would be better to see a curve based on age brackets
If for instance 25% of adults are over 90 then it wouldn’t be surprising if they couldn’t read properly. (Not saying that that’s true, just as an example)
I appreciate the effort but conservatives are not reading any studies.
Kinda like they refuse to admit we all came from Africa and and thus our ancestors are black.
Went to a Mediterranean restaurant for dinner with my wife. We celebrated her birthday, and so decided to check the dessert menu. We generally don’t get dessert, just never really lie thing, but this menu has a dessert called amygdalopita, which piques my interest. Why would they name it after part of the brain?
And so upon further research, we discovered that the Greek word αμύγδαλο (amýgdalo) means almond. And this really got my wheels turning, because it brought back memory of EMT classes, way back in like 2003, where they talked about the amygdala being named such due tonit being almond shaped.
So I like a dessert that not only tasted great, but also helped me make connections, maybe fire off some neurons I hadn’t in a while.
In Flemish/Dutch the toncills (Tonsillae palatinae) are called almonds
You ate brains for dessert?!
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