#120 - Why Conservatives Are So Afraid of Everything
Neuroscientists scanned the brains of thousands of people to see if there was a correlation between brain structure and political affiliation. There was. Conservatives have a larger, more reactive amygdala, the fear center of the brain. Liberals show more activity in the anterior cingulate cortex, the part that handles complexity and critical thinking. Scientists could predict political affiliation 82% of the time from a brain scan alone. This is not one study. It is multiple independent studies across different countries, published in journals like Nature, Neuroscience, and Current Biology…
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