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The Return of the Amygdala!!!
This is a superhero movie I’m definitely signing up for. No reason why you should recall my near-decade obsession with answering the question: how could anyone in my family vote for Trump? Because a couple of them did; I haven’t … Continue reading
Posted in MAGA, Politics, Racism, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged amygdala, brain science, conservative ideology, Dunning-Kruger, Leor Zmigrod, neuroscience, New York Times, Paul Krugman, Trump, Trump voters
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Why did the madness take over people’s minds?
For all these years, since 2016, there is that agonizing question: why did people we thought were intelligent and rational vote for Trump? My current answer — which I admit emerges from a sort of intellectual stupor coming from the … Continue reading
Posted in COVID-19, Politics, Propaganda, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged amygdala, COVID, Gab, Jim Carrey, Joe Biden, MAGA, New York Times, Randy Witt, Sheryl Stolberg, Twitter
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“The backfire effect”: another reason people still support Trump
I learn so much from reading the New York Times’ readers’ comments. Yesterday, in response to the usual thousands of plaintive, furious comments along the lines of “How does anyone still support this monstrosity?”, Mary, from Connecticut, wrote this: It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The Facts of Life, Trumpism
Tagged amygdala, confirmation bias, Dunning-Kruger Effect, enlarged amydala, the backfire effect
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