tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post1363472491939434876..comments2023-11-03T06:26:00.486-07:00Comments on Ms. Kitty's Saloon and Road Show: Article about inherited social orientationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-52141426412900204912007-08-15T05:38:00.000-07:002007-08-15T05:38:00.000-07:00No, the O'Donnell article really does not make muc...No, the O'Donnell article really does not make much of a specific <BR/>genetic statement but notes a multiplicity of factors determining voting patterns. That is not to say that genetic factors aren't part of the mix; surely they are part of it. <BR/> One also needs to be careful about the sources of information. George Lakoff, cited by Miss Kitty, is academically a linguist. He is not, so far, as I know, in the school that actually measures behavioral events. One of my Ph.D. students spent years measuring brain activity involved in speech, mostly at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, and wrote a good dissertation on the brain activity involved in changes in prosody in sentences. For a long time he has been a psychology professor and he has written a monograph on evolutionary psychology. That is a different background from someone whose academic training is in formal grammar, like Lakoff. <BR/> LinguistFriendLinguistFriendhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02695715246663202212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30312228.post-58309304915427926942007-08-13T14:24:00.000-07:002007-08-13T14:24:00.000-07:00Lakoff's Moral Politics is a pretty interesting bo...Lakoff's <I>Moral Politics</I> is a pretty interesting book. I wish more people would read it. Guess it explains a little of how my sister and I, raised solidly conservative by red-state "cornhole" Republicans, turned out to be pretty liberal.Miss Kittyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13210249894351503887noreply@blogger.com