{"id":62454,"date":"2014-12-26T15:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T20:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=62454"},"modified":"2017-07-09T01:08:55","modified_gmt":"2017-07-09T06:08:55","slug":"concern-for-equality-linked-to-logic-not-emotion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/12\/26\/concern-for-equality-linked-to-logic-not-emotion\/","title":{"rendered":"Concern for Equality Linked to Logic, Not Emotion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/12\/29.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-65517\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/12\/29-500x111.png\" alt=\"2\" width=\"500\" height=\"111\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/12\/29-500x111.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/12\/29-1024x229.png 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/12\/29.png 1475w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jneurosci.org\/content\/34\/12\/4161\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study<\/a> finds that people with high &#8220;justice sensitivity&#8221; are using logic, not emotions. \u00a0Subjects were put in a fMRI machine, one that measures ongoing brain activity and shown videos of people acting kindly or cruelly toward a homeless person.<\/p>\n<p>Some respondents reacted more strongly than others &#8212; hence the high versus low justice sensitivity &#8212; and an analysis of the high sensitivity individuals&#8217; brain activity showed that they were processing the images in the parts of the brain where logic and rationality live. \u00a0\u00a0\u201cIndividuals who are sensitive to justice and fairness do not seem to be emotionally driven,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2014\/03\/140328102909.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">explained<\/a> one of the scientists, &#8220;Rather, they are cognitively driven.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Activists aren&#8217;t angry, they reasonably object to unjust circumstances that they understand all too well.<\/p>\n<p><em>Image borrowed from Jamie Keiles at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teenagerie.com\/2011\/02\/thoughts-on-feminist-activism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Teenagerie<\/a>, who is a high sensitivity individual.<\/em><\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study finds that people with high &#8220;justice sensitivity&#8221; are using logic, not emotions. \u00a0Subjects were put in a fMRI machine, one that measures ongoing brain activity and shown videos of people acting kindly or cruelly toward a homeless person. Some respondents reacted more strongly than others &#8212; hence the high versus low justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":62455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,664,329,2104,283,675],"class_list":["post-62454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-biology","tag-emotion","tag-knowledgeintelligence","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/04\/117.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62454"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70411,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62454\/revisions\/70411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}