yoyo: ‘So these wonderful responders piling on to dave747 and announcing their own superiour cognitive abilities…’
It was ‘Dave747′ who was claiming ‘greater neurocognitive sensitivity to cues for altering a habitual response pattern’ for liberals, quoting Amodio’s pseudoscience. So lose the victim mode.
Dave742, ‘The arguments Amodio uses aremade using the terms in his field. They are not meant to fool anyone.’
The language Amodio uses is unnecessarily opaque, and the ‘good reason’ for him to use it is it sounds impressive and keeps him clear of people whose opinions he doesn’t care for. But he is just saying what nobody here would disagree with – namely that when threatened, conservatives dig their heels in, whereas liberals become conciliatory. It’s comical because we know when we hear tags like ‘greater neurocognitive sensitivity’ reserved for liberals, while conservatives are stuck with ‘habitual response pattern[s]‘, that Amodio is doing partisan politics masked as objective science.
‘It is not a conspiracy’.
Yes it is.
