People on the Far-Right and Far-Left Exhibit Strikingly Similar Brain Responses
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A study found that people on the far-right and far-left exhibit similar brain responses to political information, sparking interest in the neural basis of political ideology; the single comment on the post questioned the study's methodology.
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