Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for February 21, 2015
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Adam: Andre basically cut me off at the coffee shop! Laura: What? Adam: He said he'd serve me, but only lower-fat versions of the drinks and only one bagel a day!! This is a free society! What kind of person does that?? Laura: Um...a friend? Adam: No, no! I'm too worked up for a sweet learning moment yet.
Political question follows, please skip if desired, and sorry for the long post.
I got to wondering who complains about whom more. Do we hear more complaints about our first black president (and his family), or more complaints about “The top 1 %”? I tried to find a study done on this, this is all I came up with; an ABC study on differences between right and left.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/09/03/conservatives-and-liberals-have-different-brains-studies-show/
The studies looked at things like differences between groups’ perception of eye movement, and aversion to threatening noises. Researchers also noted that Democrats had larger anterior cingulate cortexes, which are associated with tolerance to uncertainty, while Republicans had larger right amygdalas, which are associated with sensitivity to fear.
Although Markoff concluded the studies combine to mean that the different groups communicate in different ways, psychiatrist Greg Appelbaum said the studies point toward conservatives’ tendency to avoid something called self-harm, while liberals avoid collective group harm.