>>509860365>>509860329>Students who reported more conservative political views were found to have larger amygdalaLiberals are mutants with shrunken, underdeveloped amygdala
>a structure in the temporal lobes whose primary function is in the formation, consolidation and processing of memory, as well as positive and negative conditioning (emotional learning).Liberals struggle to form, consolidate and process memories and the emotions associated with memory formation (liberals are incapable of learning from their experiences, and do not alter their views based on emotional negative experiences, e.g. a negative experience with a negro will not affect the liberal's thinking)
>The amygdala is responsible for important roles in social interaction, such as the recognition of emotional cues in facial expressions and the monitoring of personal space,Liberals are the actual antisocial ones
>with larger amygdalae correlating with larger and more complex social networksYou'll note that liberals tend to have many informal acquaintances in their social networks but few real relationships
>It is also postulated to play a role in threat detection, including modulation of fear and aggression to perceived threatsLiberals cannot detect threats and cannot generate an appropriate fear and/or aggression response if they do perceive a threat
>Conservative students were also found to have greater volume of gray matter in the left insula and the right entorhinal cortex. There is evidence that conservatives are more sensitive to disgustLiberals lack a disgust response
>and one role of the insula is in the modulation of social emotions, such as the feeling of disgust to specific sights, smells and norm violations.