In my experiments I’ve found that the most rigid thinkers have genetic dispositions related to how dopamine is distributed in their brains.
Rigid thinkers tend to have lower levels of dopamine in their prefrontal cortex and higher levels of dopamine in their striatum, a key midbrain structure in our reward system that controls our rapid instincts. So our psychological vulnerabilities to rigid ideologies may be grounded in biological differences.
In fact, we find that people with different ideologies have differences in the physical structure and function of their brains. This is especially pronounced in brain networks responsible for reward, emotion processing, and monitoring when we make errors.
For instance, the size of our amygdala — the almond-shaped structure that governs the processing of emotions, especially negatively tinged emotions such as fear, anger, disgust, danger and threat — is linked to whether we hold more conservative ideologies that justify traditions and the status quo.
It’s a Q&A with a scientist who did the study. If that’s “propaganda,” what isn’t?
all media is propaganda
So maybe you two should be deciding the scientific paper instead.
what? I don’t understand what you’re saying.
Sorry, typo. I meant discussing.
I wish. there is no paper linked in the article, just a book they are trying to sell.
even non glide typing smartphone keyboards make ridiculous errors… between autocorrect and changing the size of the hitbox based on predictive patterns, it’s a scourge we all need to tolerate in this age
Hitbox?
it’s a term from video gaming. behind the scenes, touchscreen keyboards will change the size of keys based on predictive text. it’s invisible to the user but helps raise their accuracy somewhat.
unless you meant to write “pit” and they grew the hitbox of the “u” because they thought you were writing “put” for example.