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Can science understand the Muslim ? - ketchim - 09-14-2012
When a crowd attacked the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, killing several people
including the US ambassador, it was initially seen by some as part of a rising
tide of religiously-motivated violence.....
Re: Can science help understand ? - ketchim - 09-14-2012
A small group of researchers will be watching closely.
They are part of a growing scientific discipline that is trying to identify the
neurological and biological mechanisms that lead people to commit such acts
with the ultimate goal of finding ways to stop them happening at all.
Re: Can science help understand ? - ketchim - 09-14-2012
Last february news that US troops in Afghanistan had sent copies of the Koran
to be incinerated, sparked a wave of deadly protests that left 36 people dead
and more than 200 injured.
Re: Can science help understand ? - ketchim - 09-14-2012
Now imagine that instead of employing public relations experts to advise
on the best strategy, US officials had a device that could advise them what to say,
generating a story based on a scientific understanding of the brain’s inner workings
to soothe tempers and calm the mood of the population.
Re: Can science help understand ? - ketchim - 09-14-2012
It sounds like something from a science fiction blockbuster,
but is in fact the premise behind the Pentagon’s growing interest
in the neurobiology of political violence :
a relatively new field that combines neuroscience with more traditional
social science-based approaches to understanding human behaviour.
Re: Can science help understand ? - villagebelle - 09-14-2012
mob mentality
Re: Can science help understand ? - ketchim - 09-14-2012
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mob mentality
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Not good enough ..
Why does a burning Koran trigger the Brain to Violence ??
Re: Can science help understand ? - ketchim - 09-14-2012
Why does a film depicting the Hoy Prophet as a Womaniser :
Trigger the brain mechanism to Kill the percieved composers ?
Re: Can science help understand ? - ketchim - 09-14-2012
Why does the Brain get so easily Incited ?
in the Muslim ??
Re: Can science help understand ? - ketchim - 09-14-2012
How come the Hindu is so passive ?