The cartoonish pictures are tongue in cheek, but included further down is an actual MRI scan of the brain. “The right amygdala - an ancient part of the brain - was larger in those people who described themselves as conservative. It's located where the yellow area meets the red in the centre of the picture.” Conservatives are big on fear…
Many of the citations listed here are old. What that proves is that this is not a new phenomenon. Politicians have been manipulating people since day one, but now, they use psyops methodology. It also shows that many of the right wing politicians like tRUMP have been abusing this knowledge and manipulating minds by understanding the weaknesses of their targets.
Russia and foreign trolls and Bannon/Kushner/Parscale’s Cambridge Analytica used Facebook and other social media and apps to harvest information, then used that information to put ads directly into people’s social sites to manipulate their minds and votes in the 2016 election. One of those was project Alamo WHich is best described by the Facebook voice of tRUMP
whereby Google, Facebook, Cambridge Analytica and tRUMP’s digital team worked TOGETHER in the same room to manipulate the masses… and feed the orange Koolaid directly to the weak and vulnerable.
This was David VS Goliath and a MUST READ because Cambridge Analytica simply keeps changing its name, foreign interference is working overtime, GOP operatives are spending PAC money to buy troll help and Kushners trolls and data harvesting are still alive and well and many more are being manipulated by right wing radio, Fox and OAnn and Q-Anon disinformation. (I have 66 pages of information/URLs, should you have questions about this misinformation system. I will answer tonight, should this actually be seen by anyone)
The differences between a conservative brain and liberal/socialistic brain have been researched for ages, but there are some who are still unaware of the differences in the brain which lead people to authoritarianism. These citations will help you understand the vast differences which may also explain the lines in the sand that have been drawn and the reason tRUMP wants you so divided.
The MAGA minions consider you the enemy. tRUMP Stochastic terrorism remarks are ginning up the base. Because your brain will not let you do the same, or to fight dirty as we deem it unnecessary and unethical or to hurt your fellow man as we have more empathy and compassion, it is gravely important you steel your brain for tRUMP and what he and his people will do for the next few months. He will continue to escalate-fear mongering and send in troops and his militia to tamp down Dem support.
The RW has happily created authoritarian zombies who cant think for themselves and so rely on Fox and the "president" to think for them. In other words, the RW, who have trouble believing in evolution and reality, use their ancient brain more than the modern brain and may be destroying their modern brain in the process. Constant fear creates cortisol that can destroy a brain. The implications for the future is "not very bright," literally...
Fear mongering going on on the right shuts down the brains of people who don't use the prefrontal cortex. Fear takes over the old brain and reasoning takes place in the newer brain. You cannot use both at once. Fear shuts down logical thought. PSYCH ops people and Cambridge Analytica/SCL know this! That is how and why they are able to target vulnerable amygdalas of RW people.
Below find a plethora of citations to prove there are vast differences in the conservative VS Liveral/socialistic brains.
Psychologists wonder: what is the psychology behind tRUMP’s unwavering support?
A huge thread on mental health and tRUMP’s mental problems, gaslighting and more. (Scroll up or down for more)
Conservatism and cognitive ability are negatively correlated.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289609000051
Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults
Current Biology Curr Biol. 2011 Apr 26; 21(8): 677–680. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.017
A neuroscientist explains what may be wrong with Trump supporters' brains
Conservatism and the neural circuitry of threat: economic conservatism predicts greater amygdala–BNST connectivity during periods of threat vs safety - Oxford University Press
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Volume 13, Issue 1, 1 January 2018, Pages 43–51,
https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx133
https://academic.oup.com/scan/article/13/1/43/4596542
lower cognitive ability predicts greater prejudice, an effect mediated through the endorsement of right-wing ideologies (social conservatism, right-wing authoritarianism) and low levels of contact with out-groups. In an analysis of two large-scale, nationally representative United Kingdom data sets (N = 15,874), we found that lower general intelligence (g) in childhood predicts greater racism in adulthood, and this effect was largely mediated via conservative ideology.
A secondary analysis of a U.S. data set confirmed a predictive effect of poor abstract-reasoning skills on anti-homosexual prejudice, a relation partially mediated by both authoritarianism and low levels of intergroup contact. All analyses controlled for education and socioeconomic status. Our results suggest that cognitive abilities play a critical, albeit underappreciated, role in prejudice. Consequently, we recommend a heightened focus on cognitive ability in research on prejudice and a better integration of cognitive ability into prejudice models.
This page also has many citation for prejudice, social status, cognitive ability,intelligence and educational attainment as predictors of liberal social status and political trust.
http://pss.sagepub.com/content/23/2/187.short
Why Liberals Are More Intelligent Than Conservatives. (We have higher IQs, that’s why)
An MRI scan of the brain. The right amygdala - an ancient part of the brain - was larger in those people who described themselves as conservative. It's located where the yellow area meets the red in the centre of the picture
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201003/why-liberals-are-more-intelligent-conservatives
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289610001339
https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272510361602
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2008.09.001
Together these data suggest that political conservatism may be a process consequence of low-effort thought; when effortful, deliberate thought is disengaged, endorsement of conservative ideology increases.
Conservative Syndrome and the understanding of negative correlations between religiosity and cognitive abilities
More relevant citations:
http://psp.sagepub.com/content/38/6/808.short
http://www.mycotropic.com/img/sa/low%20effort%20thought%20and%20conservatism.pdf
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201104/conservatives-big-fear-brain-study-finds
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/calling-truce-political-wars/
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/biology-ideology-john-hibbing-negativity-bias
http://amodiolab.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Jost-et-al.-2014-Adv-Polit-Neuro.pdf
http://2016election.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=005927
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2814%2901213-5