Has anyone explored whether ethnicities stereotypically identified as violent tempered (including by themselves), such as Koreans and Irish, have larger than average amygdalas or something?
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Probably cultural mythology, along the lines of “Seattle is gloomy and rainy”
(Paris is much gloomier and rainier)
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I’m not so sure. My samples tend to confirm the hypothesis more than they disconfirm.
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Yes, but evidence for this is indirect.
ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.117
irishtimes.com/news/education
This is the connection i'm seeing:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P
which suggest higher prevalence of large amygdala associated genes and/or environmental effects leading to brain growth patterns.
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