Polarized Brains Show an Aversion to Uncertainty

Science Daily: “Scientists at Brown University measured and compared the brain activity of committed partisans (both liberals and conservatives) as they watched real political debates and news broadcasts. In a recent study, they found that polarization was indeed exacerbated by intolerance of uncertainty: liberals with this trait tended to be more liberal in how they viewed political events, conservatives with this trait tended to be more conservative.”

“Yet the same neural mechanisms was at work, pushing the partisans into their different ideological camps.”