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发帖数: 2888 | 1 影帝Colin Firth，国王的演讲男主角，去年在Current Biology上面发表一篇文章，讨
论左派右派的人的大脑结构不一样。
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=colin%20firth
Political orientations are correlated with brain structure in young adults.
Kanai R, Feilden T, Firth C, Rees G.
Source
University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 Queen
Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK. r*****[email protected]
Abstract
Substantial differences exist in the cognitive styles of liberals and
conservatives on psychological measures. Variability in political attitudes
reflects genetic influences and their interaction with environmental factors
. Recent work has shown a correlation between liberalism and conflict-
related activity measured by event-related potentials originating in the
anterior cingulate cortex. Here we show that this functional correlate of
political attitudes has a counterpart in brain structure. In a large sample
of young adults, we related self-reported political attitudes to gray matter
volume using structural MRI. We found that greater liberalism was
associated with increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate
cortex, whereas greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of
the right amygdala. These results were replicated in an independent sample
of additional participants. Our findings extend previous observations that
political attitudes reflect differences in self-regulatory conflict
monitoring and recognition of emotional faces by showing that such attitudes
are reflected in human brain structure. Although our data do not determine
whether these regions play a causal role in the formation of political
attitudes, they converge with previous work to suggest a possible link
between brain structure and psychological mechanisms that mediate political
attitudes. | y****t
发帖数: 10233 | 2 不是科学早有发现.
drd4 liberal slut gene.
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: 影帝Colin Firth，国王的演讲男主角，去年在Current Biology上面发表一篇文章，讨
: 论左派右派的人的大脑结构不一样。
: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=colin%20firth
: Political orientations are correlated with brain structure in young adults.
: Kanai R, Feilden T, Firth C, Rees G.
: Source
: University College London Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, 17 Queen
: Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK. r*****[email protected]
: Abstract
: Substantial differences exist in the cognitive styles of liberals and
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