I recently participated in the online presentation of the book by Leor Zmigrod’s The Ideological Brain. Note that I haven’t read the book but the presentation was very thorough and this is what I retained. This book offers a groundbreaking synthesis of neuroscience and psychology to explain why certain individuals are more susceptible to rigid, dogmatic, or extremist ideologies. Drawing on peer-reviewed research and experimental … Continue reading Why Are Some People More Drawn to Rigid, Dogmatic, or Extremist Ideologies?