Robin Dunbar Professions : Psychologist Born : June 28, 1947 Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Robin Dunbar It's perhaps not so much how your amygdala is tuned that makes you politically extreme, but that your intrinsic nervousness makes you more responsive to things that might seem to threaten your particular social world. Education probably plays an important role in dampening that response by allowing the brain's frontal lobes (where much of the brain's conscious work goes on) to counteract the emotional responses with a more considered view, so explaining why education is invariably the friend of liberal politics. Robin Dunbar emotional views play These ensure that bonded individuals stay together so that they are on hand when support is needed. Robin Dunbar Similar Authors Bruno Bettelheim psychologist Boris Sidis psychologist Anthony Greenwald psychologist Arnold Gesell psychologist Arno Gruen psychologist Anna Freud psychologist All Authors
