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The Biology of the Right-Left Divide pt. 1

Fight Like An Animal

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Right-Left Distinctions in Perceptual Orientation to Stimulus

Those with left wing politics are more physiologically responsive to images of things like cute kittens and happy children playing. The themes of threat responsiveness and cognitive ability that we've talked out, that are ideologically correlated, a converge with evidence from genetic studies that have looked beyond h heritability. So there's actuallysoe ly highly asymmetrical features of the polarization that're occurring that aren't noted as often.

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