Liberal or Conservative? Your Brain Gives it Away

Scientists can guess if you're conservative or liberal with one brain scan. 👋 Want more? Watch an extended cut of this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tracedomingu... 👇👇👇 S O U R C E S & M O R E 👇👇👇 Welcome to the description. I'm happy you're here. 🧲🧲🧲 F O L L O W 🧲🧲🧲 🐤::   / tracedominguez   📷::   / tracedominguez   ⏰::   / mrtraced   👵🏼::   / official.tracedominguez   💖💖💖 S U P P O R T 💖💖💖 There are several ways to support me and this channel! 🎨 Directly support on Patreon! Patrons get a few little perks and can talk to me directly on our little Discord. (☞釈)☞   / tracedominguez   Every new patron causes a litany of excited squeals. ⭐ OR you can use this link and join Nebula! This same video on Nebula has extra pieces that add more context and depth to the story, plus joining and watching on Nebula will also directly support the making of Uno Dos of Trace! (Which is amazing!). Join Nebula here 👉👉👉 http://nebula.tv/tracedominguez?ref=t... 🙌 Another way to support is to SHARE this video on Facebook, Twitter, or with a friend who you think might like it! Honestly, shares make a HUGE difference to the growth of a channel and don't cost anything. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:·ﾟ✧ 📒📒📒 C H A P T E R S 📒📒📒 0:00 neuroscientists know your vote 0:33 amygdala vs cortex 3:37 here’s more evidence 4:38 remember, this is correlation 5:55 our brains were built for politics 9:23 like a brain: we’re divided 10:45 how to talk to people you disagree with 12:35 Thank you for your support 📙📙📙 B L U R B 📙📙📙 On arm day you bulk up your arms, leg day is for the legs; these are easy to understand — what’s more complicated is that the brain can do this too. When you have experiences, create routines, and even work out (literally) your brain changes. This change is called #neuroplasticity. Over time, your reactions and your worldview together can cause parts of your brain to bulk up; gaining grey matter to compensate for the increased activity. When a neuroscientist scans your brain they see this increased grey matter on an MRI (or fMRI). Using this information, surveys, and scans of hundreds of brains scientists can create correlations that reveal how people are likely to vote. Neuroscience is WILD. On days like this, science communication is so fun. 📕📕📕 L E A R N M O R E 📕📕📕 Amygdalar Lateralization in Fear Conditioning: Evidence for Greater Involvement of the Right Amygdala. https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2004-1... The relative contribution of left and right amygdalae in the acquisition and retention of fear conditioning. Amygdala structure and the tendency to regard the social system as legitimate and desirable https://www.nature.com/articles/s4156... Individual variation in preferences to maintain versus change the societal status quo can manifest in the political realm by choosing leaders and policies that reinforce or undermine existing inequalities. Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition https://gspp.berkeley.edu/assets/uplo... For more than half a century, psychologists have been tracking the hypothesis that different psychological motives and tendencies underlie ideological differences between politics: left and the right. Political leanings vary with facial expression processing and psychosocial functioning https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/... Conservative, Republican sympathizers show heightened threat reactivity, but greater felt happiness than liberal, Democrat sympathizers. Our internal politics is complicated! The brain's default network: origins and implications for the study of psychosis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti... The brain's default network is a set of regions that is spontaneously active during passive moments. The network is also active during directed tasks that require participants to remember past events or imagine upcoming events. Some images by Getty Images Music by Epidemic Sound Love you, #nerdfam! Thanks for supporting this scicomm journey of lifelong learning! Stay #curious!