• lennybird@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Fun fact: conservative brains have larger amygdalas, leading to greater response and sensitivities to fear and disgust.

    They also have smaller Anterior Cingulate Cortexes which relate to… Pattern recognition and pattern dissonance lol.

    So if you know conservatives with a strong fear and disgust response while also being literally incapable of seeing their own hypocrisy / cognitive dissonance… This is why.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/