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Toward a neuropsychology of political orientation: exploring ideology in patients with frontal and midbrain lesions (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

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[–] plyth@feddit.org 4 points 4 months ago

This turns political convictions into a race or illness. The authors mention that there is no direct link and that the brain is malleable but I think that this is part of the bigger trend that people with different political convictions separate themselves and talk less when they need to talk more.