It’s definitely an Appalachian thing, even earlier than Turtle Man you could hear people hauling ass in their dilapidated overgrown F350s and shouting “yeeyee” from the driver’s seat.
As for a definition, it’s like the mountain version of “yeehaw” or “let’s get this bread”
Makes me wonder the quantity of chemicals that could leech from HDPE embedded cement
They’ve all been doing this. Probably because they anticipate it will revert back to Twitter at some point.
How is it that when it comes to reckless ideas and notions Congress takes millions of years and the Pentagon takes no more than three business days to implement?
In 1999, how many people in the workplace, or specifically in management, would have been in school when they taught people how to use the internet? This is five years since public access to the WWW.
Only certain people had the knowledge to download and install freeware to a floppy disk. Most people in 1999 had no clue about freeware or even how to find stuff like that. Even today, most people who could know just don’t care enough to do it.
Definitely seems like a difficult thing to establish without many years and many participants involved. Surveys would be an easy way to get people’s self-evaluation of their own usage of gratitude and the usage by other people, but their relevance to actual usage is probably limited.
I just hope there’s some cute women out there that really like my hairy wrists (and total obliviousness) too
This is the foundation for the research article listed in the March 2013 NBC article.
Fourth paragraph of introduction starts:
The discovery by Kanai and colleagues [15] that four brain regions implicated in risk and uncertainty (the right amygdala, left insula, right entorhinal cortex, and anterior cingulate (ACC)) differed in liberals and conservatives provided further evidence that political ideology might be connected to differences in cognitive processes.
Same paragraph concludes:
The ACC is involved in conflict and error monitoring and in action selection [21], [22]. Thus, the regions implicated in risk and conflict, cognitive processes during which liberals and conservatives have been shown to differ in physiological response, are the similar regions shown by Kanai et al. to differ structurally in liberals and conservatives. If patterns of brain activity in these regions during the evaluation of risks could dependably differentiate liberals and conservatives, then we would have further evidence of the link between mental processes and political preferences.
Conclusion of the introduction:
Previous studies [26]–[28] using this risk-taking decision-making task found activity in some of the same regions identified by Kanai et al. as differentiating liberals and conservatives.
Honestly, I think their finding is more accurately conveyed with this sample:
Although genetic variation has been shown to contribute to variation in political ideology [48] and strength of partisanship [53], the portion of the variance in political affiliation explained by activity in the amygdala and insula is significantly larger (see Appendix S1), suggesting that acting as a partisan in a partisan environment may alter the brain, above and beyond the effect of the heredity.
The argument here is not so much that brain chemistry predicts political bias, but rather that political bias can influence brain chemistry.
The source article is a small research article sampling young adults who were students in college. The article itself addresses the scope of its findings aptly:
Although these results suggest a link between political attitudes and brain structure, it is important to note that the neural processes implicated are likely to reflect complex processes of the formation of political attitudes rather than a direct representation of political opinions per se. The conceptualizing and reasoning associated with the expression of political opinions is not necessarily limited to structures or functions of the regions we identified but will require the involvement of more widespread brain regions implicated in abstract thoughts and reasoning.
We speculate that the association of gray matter volume of the amygdala and anterior cingulate cortex with political attitudes that we observed may reflect emotional and cognitive traits of individuals that influence their inclination to certain political orientations.
I don’t think it is a good idea to base your opinion of political bias and brain chemistry on a single article’s speculation.
Anyone know the easiest way to short this stock?