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Understanding How the Brain Makes Political Decisions

In their study, a group of participants with anterograde amnesia and severe declarative memory impairment were compared to a group of ...

Understanding Bias and the Brain - Korn Ferry

What they are finding is a complex process underpinned by a network of neural structures in multiple regions of the brain. The research has frequently focused ...

Here's Why Having a Brain Means You Have Bias

That's why at NLI, we like to say, “If you have a brain, you have bias.” For leaders, it's important to learn to mitigate that bias before it negatively impacts ...

Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences

After the original study, Nam's team followed a subset of the participants for three years and found that their brain structure predicted the ...

Brain Structure Linked to Political Views, but Connection Weaker ...

Summary: A new study finds that conservative voters have slightly larger amygdalas than progressive voters, but the relationship between ...

Putting Neuroscience in the Classroom: How the Brain Changes As ...

Remarkably, many brain imaging technologies are now sensitive to changes in brain circuits that accrue from one week to the next, allowing ...

Neural basis of in-group bias and prejudices: A systematic meta ...

We found inter-group biases in some previously identified brain regions (eg, the medial prefrontal cortex, insula) but also in many previously non-identified ...

Brain scans remarkably good at predicting political ideology

Brain scans of people taken while they performed various tasks – and even did nothing – accurately predicted whether they were politically conservative or ...

How to Work with the Bias in Your Brain

Bias is a natural byproduct of the way our brains work, writes Eberhardt. First, babies naturally learn to distinguish faces of their own racial ...

Neural correlates of maintaining one's political beliefs in the face of ...

Another brain region, the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC), showed the opposite relationship, correlating positively with resistance to ...

Neuroscience Needs Behavior: Correcting a Reductionist Bias

Insofar as the goal of a neuroscience research question is to explain some behavior, be it a phenomenon from vision, communication, motor ...

Why Do Our Brains Love Fake News? - YouTube

One big reason for this is cognitive bias ... In this video, Myles dives into the research and offers some tips to combat confirmation bias.

The 5 Biggest Biases That Affect Decision-Making

To brain scientists, these shortcuts are known as “biases.” They're neither good nor bad; they just are. They help us in certain cases and hinder us in others.

The Cognitive Biases Tricking Your Brain - The Atlantic

I took the test again soon after playing the game, with mixed results. I showed notable improvement in confirmation bias, fundamental ...

The Political Brain | Scientific American

Now a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study shows where in the brain the confirmation bias arises and how it is unconscious and ...

Political bias affects brain activity, study finds - NBC News

"We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning," said Drew Westen, director of clinical ...

A Neural Network Framework for Cognitive Bias - Frontiers

To enhance our understanding of cognitive heuristics and biases we propose a neural network framework for cognitive biases, which explains why our brain ...

Liberals, Conservatives, and the Political Brain - YouTube

... neurological roots of political behavior? Emerging ... Liberals, Conservatives, and the Political Brain: fMRI Studies of Political Ideology.

A Neurology of the Conservative-Liberal Dimension of Political ...

An MRI study of 90 young adults shows that political conservatives, compared with political liberals, have greater gray matter in the right ...

How men's and women's brains are different | Stanford Medicine

But in women, this relationship was observed only in the left amygdala. In men, it was only in the right amygdala. Cahill and others have since ...