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What Political Polarization Looks Like in the Brain


What Political Polarization Looks Like in the Brain

Our study suggests that there is a neural basis to partisan biases, and some language especially drives polarization.

Study offers neurological explanation for how brains bias partisans ...

While previous theories posited that political polarization results from selective consumption (and over-consumption) of news and social media, ...

Politically polarized brains share an intolerance of uncertainty

A new study on political polarization led by a Brown University team showed how an aversion to uncertainty is often associated with ...

What Political Polarization Looks Like in the Brain: Liberal and ...

“Specifically, the study traces the source of neural polarization to a higher-order brain region known as the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, ...

Conservative and liberal attitudes drive polarized neural ... - PNAS

We searched for evidence of “neural polarization”: activity in the brain that diverges between people who hold liberal versus conservative political attitudes.

Deeper Than You Think: Partisanship-Dependent Brain Responses ...

Recent political polarization has illustrated how individuals with opposing political views often experience ongoing events in markedly ...

The Psychology of Political Polarization | Psychiatrist.com

The Expressive Model of Partisanship and group-level psychological processes might tend to dominate as elections draw nearer or during election ...

How Our Brain Responds to Politically Charged Information

Synchronized brains, inflammatory media content, and political polarization. ... Intolerance of uncertainty as a personality trait is relevant for ...

They Saw a Debate: Political Polarization Is Associated with Greater ...

With rampant polarization in current U.S. politics, it seems as though political partisans with opposing viewpoints are living in parallel ...

The Brain Hemispheres and the Politics of Polarization

Similarly, any overactive political ideology, left or right, that is ... is more a product of the left brain, and is likely polarizing. The ...

University researchers publish findings on neural polarization ...

“The fact that we can just show people words that are slightly political in nature … and already the brain is polarizing that information ...

The Brain Science of Political Polarization - LinkedIn

Why is it that political polarization seems to be getting worse? Part of the answer is how our brains work. As a professor that teaches ...

The polarized mind in context - PMC - PubMed Central

Although both accounts have made valuable progress, political polarization is neither a purely cognitive-trait nor contextual issue. We argue ...

When Is Political Polarization Good and When Does It Go Bad?

As politicians escalate their rifts, citizens are cued to entrench partisan segregation. This produces additional belief polarization, which in ...

What Political Polarization Looks Like In Your Brain

Our study suggests that there is a neural basis to partisan biases, and some language especially drives polarization.

Science is revealing why American politics are so intensely polarized

Recent survey data revealed that more than half of Republicans and Democrats view the other party as “a threat,” and nearly as many agree with ...

America's Divided Mind: Understanding the Psychology That Drives ...

In short, we believe we're more polarized than we really are—and that misperception can drive us even further apart. The divide is correlated with outcomes that ...

Liberal or Conservative? Your Brain Gives it Away - YouTube

... is correlation 5:55 our brains were built for politics 9:23 like a ... The psychology of political polarization | Conservatives vs.

They Saw a Debate: Political Polarization Is Associated with Greater ...

Pairs of participants with more polarized political affiliations were higher in neural synchrony in a system of brain regions involved in self- ...

Political Polarization: Uncertainty and the Neurobiology of Why We ...

Dr. FeldmanHall and her team learned that politically like-minded people have synchronized brain activity when watching politically polarizing ...