Brain scans of authoritarians show reduced grey matter in regions for empathy and social reasoning
by Ellsworth Toohey from Boing Boing on (#76E9A)
A study published in Neuroscience by researchers at Spain's University of Zaragoza scanned the brains of 100 young adults and found structural differences in those who hold authoritarian beliefs - on both the left and the right. Right-wing authoritarians had lower grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, a region involved in understanding other people's thoughts and perspectives. - Read the rest
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