Sharing a political ideology predicts more similar brain activity

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25250/thescbr.brk737

Keywords:

political polarization, cognitive neuroscience, brain synchrony

Abstract

Even when presented with the same information, liberals and conservatives tend to interpret political information differently. By measuring brain activity while partisans watched political videos or thought about political concepts, we show that individuals that are similar in their political beliefs exhibit similar brain patterns whilst processing political information.

Author Biographies

Daantje de Bruin, Brown University

PhD student

Oriel FeldmanHall, Brown University

Associate Professor

Original article reference

de Bruin, D., van Baar, J. M., Rodríguez, P. L., & FeldmanHall, O. (2023). Shared neural representations and temporal segmentation of political content predict ideological similarity. Science Advances, 9(5), eabq5920. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq5920

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Published

2023-08-18

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 3 (2023): TheScienceBreaker

Section

Psychology

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