Evidence continues to mount indicating that political attitudes may develop more as a result of innate genetic/neurological factors than from environmental forces or intellectual effort. One source qualitatively linked political attitudes to whether an individual's right or left lobe of the prefrontal cortex of the brain is dominant in processing information. Left-lobe dominant individuals tend to be logical and realistic and sequentially reason to conclusions. These individuals seem likely to make up most of the politically conservative population. Those who are right-brain dominant, intuitive thinkers and see the world through a more emotional lens appear to function as political liberals. This is the brain laterality factor in the political arena and has a reported basis relatable to distinctive differences in neurotransmitter system chemistry. Other work has provided indirect evidence consistent with brain laterality as a likely factor shaping political opinion. Educators have...(Read Full Post)