Research reveals that partisan views have biological roots. According to the largest study of its type, brain scans of individuals obtained as they engaged in different activities or even did nothing accurately indicated whether they were politically conservative or liberal. Researchers discover
The scientists were able to predict political behavior by simply looking at a scan of the brain.According to the largest study of its type, brain scans of individuals obtained as they engaged in different activities or even did nothing accurately indicated whether they were politically conservative or liberal.
It is also one of the few to investigate functional connectivity in relation to ideology. Using a whole-brain approach, it looked at which regions of the brain displayed comparable patterns of activity at the same time when performing particular tasks, indicating that they are communicating with one another.
“But we found the scans from all eight tasks were related to whether they identified as liberals or conservatives.” Only the scans of the reward task could predict political extremism – those who said they were very conservative or very liberal. And only the empathy task was significantly associated with moderate ideology.
“What we don’t know is whether that brain signature is there because of the ideology that people choose or whether people’s ideology is caused by the signatures we found,” he said.
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