Neuroscientists are examining whether political allegiances are hard-wired into people after finding evidence that the brains of conservatives are a different shape to those of left-wingers.
Self-proclaimed right-wingers had a more pronounced amygdala - a primitive part of the brain associated with emotion while their political opponents from the opposite end of the spectrum had thicker anterior cingulates.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Brain thickness determines political leaning
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more neuro-factoids:
http://www.livescience.com/culture/liberal-conservative-revealed-by-eyes-101227.html
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