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January 1, 2005

Political arguments Irrational

Filed under: Uncategorized — Ryan Jones @ 12:00 am


Using MRI scanners, neuroscientists now have tracked what happens in the politically partisan brain when it tries to digest damning facts about favored candidates or criticisms of them….

….”Everything we know about cognition suggests that, when faced with a contradiction, we use the rational regions of our brain to think about it, but that was not the case here,” said Dr. Drew Westen…

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