So, the amygdala doesn't just impact fear response, it also does anger, anxiety, and stress. An overactive amygdala negatively impacts your ability to think clearly.

HA HA take that COMMIE you're braver than me due to your genetic superiority! ^oh ^wait

Fear is, famously, an excellent impetus for rational decision-making. (/s just in case)

Fun fact: Conservativism can be linked to Lead and/or Mercury exposure

I'm autistic and have an oversized amygdala but that doesn't stop me from being leftist. I just feel compassion for everyone human. Still struggling with the compassion for animals that I eat.

The better educated you are, the more left leaning you tend to be:
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/

Conservatives tend to be dismissive of science and empirical evidence:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160713172717.htm

Higher verbal IQ correlates with liberal attitudes:
https://www.psypost.org/verbal-iq-predicts-political-participation-and-liberal-attitudes-twice-as-strongly-as-performance-iq/

Whatever this dumb shit is, is a reaction to that. As usual, they project their own shortcomings on their enemies.

In any case, what it comes down to is basic empathy and morality. If you care for others, you tend to vote left. If you care for only yourself and your self-interests, you vote right. There is no debating that, it's stated right there in the fucking ideology.

POV:

You just aggravated someone with an 'undersized' amygdala.

No wonder Republicans are so phobic of everything. They got overinflated amygdalas. Amygdalas so big they look like this:

Conservatives are more afraid of everything, and respond in anger. How the fuck is that "better"?

Amygdala's wardrobe in "A Phantom Menace" was overactive

Ah, the typical nazi idea of correlating random body measurements with complex behavioral and emotional patterns.

Went to a Mediterranean restaurant for dinner with my wife. We celebrated her birthday, and so decided to check the dessert menu. We generally don't get dessert, just never really lie thing, but this menu has a dessert called amygdalopita, which piques my interest. Why would they name it after part of the brain?

And so upon further research, we discovered that the Greek word αμύγδαλο (amýgdalo) means almond. And this really got my wheels turning, because it brought back memory of EMT classes, way back in like 2003, where they talked about the amygdala being named such due tonit being almond shaped.

So I like a dessert that not only tasted great, but also helped me make connections, maybe fire off some neurons I hadn't in a while.

For the curious ones, from Psychology Today:

"A larger amygdala is primarily associated with increased anxiety, heightened emotional reactivity, and stress-related disorders, often acting as a hyper-active "threat detector" Symptoms frequently include persistent fearfulness, depression, irritability, and hypervigilance, as the brain over-processes neutral stimuli as threats."

Whoever made the original meme is an absolute moron.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-athletes-way/201311/the-size-and-connectivity-the-amygdala-predicts-anxiety

conservatives have a hyerptrophied amygdala due to always constantly feeling fear.

Conservatives don't know anything about the person they voted for. They don't know anything about how their government functions. They don't know anything about their Constitution.

I promise they don't know what an amygdala is or what it does.

OMG they are so detached from reality that they are bragging about being terrified?

"Be afraid." We have people posting "Be afraid." with 0% irony.
What?

Tiny amygdala

Big dick

Hat3rs will h8

Sanders 2028

I'm afraid of urban density, diversity, genders and social progress. That makes me superior.

Fear is the mind killer. Long live the fighters.

I've seen some interesting discussion of this linked to the idea of survive/thrive strategies. Is the world a dangerous place that calls for avoiding risks and protecting what you have, or is it full of opportunities and calls for exploring and being open to novelty? Neither inclination is fundamentally wrong. But I'm not sure how to reconcile that with modern "rightists" who want to burn down the system and aren't conservative in the lowercase-C sense.

who need they amygdalussy ate

"I'm afraid more often and that's why I'm a terrible person!"

"I'm more scared than you!" Is a weird flex.

Nice to see conservatives were able to rebrand the "conservatives have over-active amygdala and are scared of everything for no reason" articles

Ironic that right-wingers seem to be particularly enamoured of the “It’s afraid” meme then (doubly ironic that it’s from an anti-fascist parody).

Since we're sharing fun facts, conservatism and authoritarianism is unsurprisingly correlated with high levels of obedience in things like the Milgrim shock experiment replications. Something akin to 90% compared to the original 60% (which was already quite high since they only had white men at the time).

They're also more likely to choose selfish options in things like the prisoners dilemma, too!

(Edit, if you wanna read more there's an open source textbook I use: https://opentextbc.ca/socialpsychology/ )

The average American reads at an elementary school level, and many are functionally illiterate. Here is a case in point.

Stay close to the tree line. Learn to identify plants with poisonous oils. Stockpile the leaves that are like paper. If you must run a fire, use clean burning fuels, to avoid disclosing location. Dig a deep hole and build a privacy wall out of poisonous vines.

Edit that was for something else lol

When you claim to have a strong ability to sense danger, so you join the demonic pedophile death-cult.

the brain is plastic, so it seems far more likely to me that being in conservative circles causes the amygdala to enlarge than the opposite

Let's just say I get scared real easy.