
The Biology of the Right-Left Divide pt. 1
Fight Like An Animal
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Ideological Correlations With Brain Activity
An ideology not only predicts the activity of these brain regions, but also their their absolute size. A 20 12 brain imaging study found that those on the right have bigger amigdale and those on the left have bigger a c cs. The researchers then performed a subsequent study in which they looked at images of a different set of study participants brains and predicted their voting behavior just by looking at their brains. They were right of very statistically powerful amount of the time.
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