[lit-ideas] Re: Emotion and Politics
- From: Robert Paul <robert.paul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:19:06 -0800
Eric Yost wrote:
Researchers asked staunch party members from both sides to evaluate
information that threatened their preferred candidate prior to the 2004
Presidential election. The subjects' brains were monitored while they
pondered.
[………]
"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. "What we saw instead was a
network of emotion circuits lighting up, including circuits hypothesized
to be involved in regulating emotion, and circuits known to be involved
in resolving conflicts."
More research results from Professor Westen:
http://www.heiwaytravel.com/Drew/professor.html
Robert Paul
reed.edu
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