Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Party Line Brains

Brain scans of staunch party members - Republicans and Democrats alike - show a tendency to ignore information that could threaten their candidates.

' "We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning," said Drew Westen, director of clinical psychology at Emory University. '

Remember, no cognition, no cognitive dissonance!

What I think is funny
Is that we had to spend money
To prove beyond a doubt
That some people just tune out.

1 comment:

  1. Thanks. By the way, Lennox shows up here (scroll down):

    http://www.aynrandsociety.org/

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