For a long time I've felt that political science is just a branch of psychopathology. Now it appears that technology is approaching the point that political science can be studied by techniques of neuroscience:
Political affiliation could be all in the brain
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Political affiliation could be all in the brain
A brain scan might one day predict your voting patterns. That is the implication of a study that found different brain activity among liberals and conservatives asked to carry out a simple button-pushing test. The study implies that our political diversity may be the result of neurological differences.
More: here (updated here), here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Related: here
References:
- Harold Lasswell – Psychopathology and Politics
- Theodor Adorno – The Authoritarian Personality
- James D. Barber – Presidential Character: Predicting Performance In The White House