therightfangirl | Ever wonder why liberals act as they do? (Reply)

I found this report from a neurology site quite interesting. It's often been remarked by those of a rightward leaning that the left are perpetually worried, negative, make word salads, incessantly move goalposts, jump from point to point restlessly ... the below sheds some light on that.

Anxiety, depression, and leftism correlate - we had detected a rightward bias in hemisphericity of the liberal as compared to the leftward bias in the conservative. There has been considerable research on the emotional attributes of the two hemispheres, and the right hemisphere has been implicated by many studies in negative emotions and depressive moods - strong correlation between goal-seeking and conservatism - Liberals show a greater tendency for multi-tasking, which is also a trait of people reporting depression and chronic anxiety - strong elevation in goal-seeking behavior in the conservatives, which is an indication that conservatives may be more "active" in their immediate environments - Liberals report elevated problems with language comprehension - Depression and especially anxiety **dramatically impair the ability to track and maintain focus during conversation**. This is consistent with other research (11), and also consistent with the right hemisphere's general deficit for literal language processing - http://neuropolitics.org/Anxiety-Depression-and-Goal-Seeking-in-Conservatives-Liberals-Moderates.htm (emphasis added by me)