"We did not see any increased activation of the parts of the brain normally engaged during reasoning," said Drew Westen, director of clinical psychology at Emory who led the study. "What we saw instead was a network of emotion circuits lighting up.
Nothing new, really, but nice to have a scientific basis for my understanding of politics, to have my suspicions confirmed.
"None of the circuits involved in conscious reasoning were particularly engaged," he said.
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