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Clear, anyone who knows trump, and i do, knows his words to billy bush reflect exactly who he is and always will be." tough words from him. after trump's poor performance in the first debate i started asking schwartz how the candidate handles setbacks. >> his typical way is in everything to double down on whatever it is he was doing previously so, i fully expect him to come back with the roar of a lion, which i think will be a mistake. and i think my saying it won't have any effect on it. it's going to move from his prefrontal cortex, where you do your logical thinking, to your amygdala where ...

Amygdala is on overdrive, saying, that felt good, let's do it again. so receiving or looking at sexuallily titillating material or exhibiting yourself would fall in that category. then the front of the brain, the prefrontal cortex that houses consequence, so, if i do this today, what's going to happen to me tomorrow, am i going to be in trouble, that part is not well established until you're in your actually low to mid-20s. >> so all the more reason if that is a great explanation for a lot of these young people, they haven't really thought about the consequences, don't really realize the ramif...

Impairment, a volume deduction and poor functioning in a part of the brain called the amygdala, the seat of emotion. we have been finding on psychopathic offenders they have an 18% reduction in the volume in the amygdala. when they contemplate making moral decisions like should i kill someone or not, that part of the brain is just not as active as in normal people. >> you have done a terrific job making the science accessible for people. i want to show a couple of images that will be important. you should read the book. take a look there at a scan of the brain, a p.e.t. scan. normal on the lef...

Psychopathy and it's also found in boxers. during fetal development as the regions begin to expand and develop they compressor fuse the two leaflets together. for some people the gap never closes. that gives rise to a lack of fear and a psychopathic type personality who could go and ll a number of people and not have any sense of shame or remorse or guilt about doing that. another seat of fear in the brain is this almond shaped stcture called the amygdala. this is the brain of a psychopath and according to his studies the blue areas shrink in psychopaths and it makes the area dramatically smal...

Larger amygdala, it helps you better analyze threats or fear. >> there's a guy that knows a thing or two about creating fear among conservative brains. let's take a look at that for a second. >> i will tell you this. the world is about to be plunged into complete and utter darkness, despair. quite honestly, famine will follow. >> famine will follow. be afraid, be afraid! but look, it's interesting because we always suspected that liberals do nuance. the findings seem to say that liberals do nuance and conservatives run their campaign on fear. this shows the biology of why they do that. >> glen...