Comments on: Neuroscience of voting http://neurodudes.com/2008/09/22/neuroscience-of-voting/ at the intersection of neuroscience and AI. Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:17:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Neuromarketing http://neurodudes.com/2008/09/22/neuroscience-of-voting/comment-page-1/#comment-781565 Neuromarketing Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:04:17 +0000 http://neurodudes.com/?p=477#comment-781565 What? Profs at Berkeley and Stanford lean to the left? Who knew? :-) Perhaps part of the reason that a fear-based message doesn't win every election is that many people don't react strongly to that kind of message. The people who didn't react to the pictures of maimed people and spiders probably don't react strongly to nuclear research in Iran or instability in Pakistan - they may be intellectually concerned about these kinds of developments, but don't process them as real threats to their personal safety. Roger What? Profs at Berkeley and Stanford lean to the left? Who knew? :-)

Perhaps part of the reason that a fear-based message doesn’t win every election is that many people don’t react strongly to that kind of message. The people who didn’t react to the pictures of maimed people and spiders probably don’t react strongly to nuclear research in Iran or instability in Pakistan – they may be intellectually concerned about these kinds of developments, but don’t process them as real threats to their personal safety.

Roger

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