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Red Genes, Blue Genes: Exposing Political Irrationality by Guillermo C. Jimenez

By Guillermo C. Jimenez

Literary Nonfiction. Political technological know-how. glossy technological know-how postulates that our political predispositions should be traced to our genes. to some degree, there's any such factor as "red-state" or "blue-state" DNA. Our brains likewise endure the evolutionary imprint of millions of years of political wiring--for biased partisanship. the result's a political panorama characterised by means of irrationality and hostility. american citizens this day, like voters of many different nations, locate themselves trapped in antagonistic "red" vs. "blue" political battle. whereas liberals and conservatives struggle one another for strength and impression, the world's difficulties pass unsolved. utilizing fresh clinical facts from neuroscience, behavioral genetics, and evolutionary and cognitive psychology, pink GENES, BLUE GENES is the 1st ebook to take a complete examine the phenomenon of political irrationality.

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Part of the great popular appeal of the Kahneman–Tversky research program is that it was based on the “psychology of simple questions” — so the average reader can easily follow the argument (not so easy with Einstein’s theory of special relativity). Let us try a few of the classic questions ourselves, as an introduction to the world of cognitive bias. * Were it not for his untimely death, Tversky would doubtless have shared the Nobel podium with his old friend Danny. Fittingly, Kahneman devoted a portion of his Nobel lecture to a eulogy for Tvsersky, in which he recollected their collaboration movingly: “Amos was often described by people who knew him as the smartest person they knew.

He is, quite normally and naturally, inclined to be childish, suggestible, superstitious, bigoted and downright idiotic about much of his personal behavior, particularly about his relations with other people. — Albert Ellis, with Robert Harper, A Guide to Rational Living in an Irrational World (1961) Kahneman and Tversky’s research shows us that we frequently misperceive the world around us. The main causes of our erroneous views are: 1) Habitual Mental Laziness — We resist the effort involved in turning on System 2, the analytical part of the brain; and 2) Bias — Our view of the world is warped by self-interest, and that selfinterest is in turn aroused by political partisanship, ideology and patriotism.

If we are forced to confront a strong argument, our emotions compel us to find an even stronger rationalization for our prejudice against it. Each argument we face only reinforces our biases. The stronger the adversary argument, the more stubbornly we rationalize our point of view. This is why highly-educated people can be so obnoxiously opinionated and closed-minded when it comes to politics. Consider the recent controversy over whether the press is subject to a liberal or conservative bias. The confirmation bias teaches us that even if partisan voters were provided with perfectly unbiased reporting, indeed even if they were provided with exactly the same information, their opinions would still grow further and further apart, driven by the inexorable force of the confirmation bias.

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