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Oct 26, 2020 · The still emerging field of political neuroscience has begun to move beyond describing basic structural and functional brain differences between people of different ideological...
Feb 1, 2023 · Study offers neurological explanation for how brains bias partisans against new information. People who share a political ideology have more similar ‘neural fingerprints’ of political words and process new information in similar ways, according to a new analysis led by Brown University researchers.
Mar 7, 2017 · There is increasing evidence that neurobiological mechanisms mediate individual differences in political ideology through effects on a conservative-liberal axis. This review summarizes personality, evolutionary and genetic, cognitive, neuroimaging, and neurological studies of conservatism-liberalism and discusses how they might affect political ...
- Mario F. Mendez
- 2017
Feb 22, 2021 · The research presented here not only illuminates the political brain and how it functions when it is bombarded by the ambiguities and contradictions of ideologies—it also hints at what an informed, evidence-based (brainy) approach to politics could look like.
- Leor Zmigrod, Manos Tsakiris
- 2021
Dec 23, 2016 · Brain activation during challenges to political vs. non-political beliefs. In red/yellow, brain regions that showed increased signal while processing challenges to political beliefs (P >...
- Jonas T. Kaplan, Sarah I. Gimbel, Sam Harris
- 2016
The emerging interdisciplinary field of political neuroscience (or neuropolitics) is focused on understanding the neural mechanisms underlying political information processing and decision making.
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Nov 4, 2023 · In this article, we review existing theories and evaluate findings from the growing field of political neuroscience with an emphasis on four brain regions that have emerged as important neural substrates of political ideology: the amygdala, the insular cortex, the anterior cingulate cortex, and the prefrontal cortex.
