We vote with our hearts, not our minds
13 07 2007It’s not just religion. Voting isn’t rational either, a new book claims.
This groundbreaking investigation by a renowned psychologist and neuroscientist makes the case that we vote with our hearts, not our minds.
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THE POLITICAL BRAIN The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation by DREW WESTEN
“ You can’t change the structure of the brain
But you can change the way you appeal to it. . .” |
I can’t think of much that’s more important than this is, for my unschooled kids to learn . . . how about you? 
http://www.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,2125978,00.html
That got to my heart.
Nance
A dogged conservative-libertarian dad on an alternative education elist back in 2004, asserted that this voting-by-feelings effect was all WOMEN’s fault, due to the 19th amendment foolishly bringing all our messy emotionalism into politics, and that now we had “feminized” voting to the point that many men are doing it too. He was totally irrational of course . . .
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