The ideology may not be what you think but how you are wired
Nowadays they are so acute partisan divisions that it may seem that people have completely different realities. Perhaps in reality they are, according to Leor Zmigrod, neuroscientist and political psychologist of the University of Cambridge. In a new book, "the ideological brain: the radical science of flexible thought", Dr. Zmigrod explores the emerging evidence that brain physiology and biology help to explain not only because people are prone to ideology, but how they perceive and share information.This conversation has been modified for clarity and brevity.What is ideology?It is a narrative on how the world works and how it should work. This could be the social world or the natural world. But it's not just a story: it has really rigid prescriptions on how we should think, how we should...