So we have that study. We have the fact that conservatives deny and are ignorant of science and then we have this study.....
"Another recent study gives us an idea of why these results might be so: ProCon.org assembled a list of 13 different peer-reviewed studies which conclude that liberals and conservatives might not just have different talking points, they actually have different brains.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/09/03/conservatives-a...
Each of the studies examined different elements of dissimilarity between liberals and conservatives and had interesting results. Democrats, it seems, have a greater tolerance for uncertainty have because of their larger anterior cingulate cortexes, and Republicans are more sensitive to fear, because of their larger right amygdalas. Psychiatrist Greg Appelbaum also found that conservatives are more likely to avoid individual self-harm, while liberals are more likely to avoid collective group harm. The researchers said it was important to keep in mind that it might not be that a personâs predisposition to certain neurological markers leads to their political affiliation and in fact, it may be a âchicken or the egg issueâ, where a personâs political affiliation can actually change their physiological traits.
The Brock study might make more sense in the light of these findings, as well. Dodson noted that conservative ideologies lend themselves to âstructure and orderâ and might be better suited to those with less cognitive capacity. Dodson believes itâs an unfortunate consequence that those same features also contribute to more prejudice."
http://www.sodahead.com/united-stat...-smarter-than-conservatives/question-3335313/
