There are some interesting brain imaging studies to people who've done
meditation, showing that you can increase the way that we connect to each other,
the amount of empathy we feel for others, by doing something as simple as meditating
a few minutes a day. But we're not
seeing evidence of partisan differences on this. The empirical data that I've looked at seems
to suggest that both Democrats and Republicans, both Liberals and Conservatives,
can very well categorize people who don't believe in their political views.
R: OK. Let's get back to your study now, and talk a
little bit more about what we can take from this. Now one question before we go to that is, How
many people were in the study?
D: Eight-something [ -- 80] subjects in this study. I don't
know off the top of my head.
R: Now, out of those eighty how
many of those were registered Democrat or Republican?
D: Again, off the top of my
head, it's been a while since I've, you know, there's a delay between when you
write the paper and when it gets published /
R: Yes, of course.
D: - Twenty [20] something subjects that were
Republicans, and sixty [60] that were Democrats. That's roughly what I recall.
R: So your study only included
the people who were Republican or Democrat, you left out the people who are not
registered with a party?
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