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The Biology of the Right-Left Divide part 3

Fight Like An Animal

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The Third Prediction That I Would Make Is That People With More Egalitarian Politics Will Have More Juvenile Patterns of Brain Gene Expression

I think that people would increasingly tend towards aggressive responses to hypothetical situations with increasingly high scores on psychological metrics of conservatism and then the second prediction that I make in my paper is that social cognitive differences probably exist within the political spectrum that haven't yet been identified. People with more egalitarian politics are going to have more juvenile patterns of brain gene expression so you know there's a scientific hypothesis in the sense that it is attempting to explain a bunch of observed phenomena but it is also making predictions about future observations.

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