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How is Political Temperment Determined?

Author
Alex Epperson
Published
Thu 22 Mar 2012
Episode Link
http://sciencebeyondtheclassroom.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-is-political-temperment-determined.html

Could biological factors influence whether we are liberal or conservative in our views? What can cognition - or, the way the brain processes information tell us about our behavior? What is the gaze-cueing effect? Cognitive Psychologist Dr. Mike Dodd had an experiment in collaboration with Political Scientists John Hibbing and Kevin Smith to get to the bottom of it.

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