Episode 256: The Right to Punish?
Very Bad Wizards
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Neuro Politics
Since the early 2000s, we have been able to look at what happens inside our heads when we think using FMRI scans. Scans show that when people think about politics as in the rough and tumble partisan struggle, the fight and flight amygdala is back to the amygdala. When people are exposed to questions about policy, they use the more advanced parts of the brain.
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