Your Brain on Politics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Liberals and Conservatives | The Intersection | Discover Magazine Apparently liberals are psychopaths and conservatives are schizophrenics. Or at least, each have functioning leaning more towards those, respectively. Interesting stuff.
I've been reading about some of this lately. I certainly believe our personalities help to shape our political views , and if personalities are part of our psychology, it makes some sense. But politics it still overwhelmingly nurture over nature.
This is really fascinating stuff; thanks for sharing. While I would not consider myself fully liberal in terms of politics, I do lean in that direction and certainly heavily on social issues. Interestingly enough, my career has a primary focus on analytics (not exactly the same, but correlates). Also, I have always struggled to an extent with emotional attachment; that is not to say that I do not feel emotions, do not love, etc., but I have to work at it. I have actually become better at the emotional aspect of relationships over the past few years, which may also lend support to the section about the brain being 'plastic' and always changing. Again, very interesting stuff.
