real versus metaphorical sensation
- When subjects held the heavier clipboard, they tended to judge candidates as more “serious” (Location 9141)
- Hard or soft chair. Sit in the former and they were more likely to perceive individuals as stable and unemotional, to be less flexible in economic game play. This is remarkable—haptic sensations in your butt influencing whether you think someone is a hard-ass. (Location 9149)
- Subjects who held the ==warm cup rated the individual as having a warmer personality== (Location 9153)
- a major predictor of whether a prisoner would be granted parole was how recently the judge had eaten. Empty stomach, harsher judgment. Other work has shown that when people are hungry, they become less generous with money and show more future discounting (i.e., are more likely to want reward X now, rather than wait for reward 2X). (Location 9157)
- subjects told that the office was on the other side of the planet tended to view the data points at a macro level of analysis, paying attention to the overall pattern and seeing that downturn as a mere aberration: (Location 9168)
The current set of inputs in our daily lives are too modern for our brain, it didn’t evolve brain regions handling social media or moral disgust. It works with the parts it already has. This is why moral disgust is processed in the same region as taste.
- moral disgust, feeling someone’s pain, warm and cold personalities. Given how short a time behaviorally modern humans have existed, this has occurred in a blink of an eye. There hasn’t been enough time to evolve completely new brain regions and circuits for handling these novelties. Instead, tinkering occurred—“Hmm, extreme negative affect elicited by violations of shared behavioral norms. Let’s see … Who has any pertinent experience? I know, the insular cortex (insula)! (Location 9184)
- neurodegenerative disease frontotemporal dementia, destined to eventually destroy the entire fancy neocortex, takes out von Economo neurons first (Location 9195)
- Note: Interessant diese spindle neurons
- But as propagandists and ideologues have long known, if you want to get someone to feel that an Other hardly counts as human, there’s only one way to do it—engage the insular cortex (insula). And the surest way to do that is with metaphor. (Location 9211)
Was sind spindle neurons?
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The metaphorical Dark Side
- But as propagandists and ideologues have long known, if you want to get someone to feel that an Other hardly counts as human, there’s only one way to do it—engage the insular cortex (insula). And the surest way to do that is with metaphor. (Location 9211)
see also
Feeling someone else’s pain
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