Red Brain, Blue Brain : How Our Political and Religious Preferences Are Chosen

by Stabenau, James

• ISBN13: 9781938183089
• ISBN10: 1938183088
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-04-01
• Publisher: Andover Pr

Summary

Politics and religion are two topics that are not easy to discuss at cocktail parties or at the water cooler. They are just too controversial for polite company. Each of us explains our opinions based on life-long values. However, those opinions may not be simple choices but rather, the values fostered by our genes, which program our brains in the perception of life. Why is it that we do not hear each other? Why is it so difficult to explain to each other our values? Why can't we clarify each other's views in simple conversation? In Red Brain, Blue Brain, Dr. James Stabenau claims that differences in our political and religious preferences are skewed to a conservative or liberal view through the functional dominance in either brain hemisphere's perception of the world. Based on two decades of neuro-cognitive research, Dr. Stabenau has determined that we perceive the world differently through a unique set of left and right brain actions. Simply put, the left hemisphere actions embrace beliefs while actions of the right offer questions and these differing brain perceptions determine the unique values that our mind holds and reflects upon.