This explains PH!
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D_Mike

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5,301 posts

271 months

Friday 27th January 2006
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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11009379/


Political party members' brains get a rush from "ignoring information that's contrary to their point of view".

said:

"None of the circuits involved in conscious reasoning were particularly engaged," Westen said. "Essentially, it appears as if partisans twirl the cognitive kaleidoscope until they get the conclusions they want, and then they get massively reinforced for it, with the elimination of negative emotional states and activation of positive ones."


So there we go, its true, when you have strongly held political beliefs reason won't sway you. Hence the threads we get on PH.

BTW, The BBC is great, man landed on the moon... etc. etc.

simpo two

93,001 posts

296 months

Friday 27th January 2006
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Also explains the idiocy of my first boss... and why his products were useless.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

286 months

Friday 27th January 2006
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D_Mike said:
Hence the threads we get on PH


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