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Polarized neural responses to political narratives are sensitive to small variations in self-reported political perspectives

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: = 40) listened to narratives about immigration in Finland, we observe neural polarization between more and slightly less immigration-supportive individuals in widespread neural areas, similar to the areas reported in previous studies of neural polarization. The findings extend current knowledge by revealing that neural polarization arises even when self-reported ideological perspectives differ only slightly. Together, these results shed light on how political information is interpreted and processed in the brain.

Source: iScience

DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.114268