Brain Scan Can Predict Your Political Party

A new study paper released in PNAS Nexus by researchers at the Ohio State University says that a brain scan can predict your political party.

According to a new study, brain scans can actually identify which political party someone favours. According to a research from The Ohio State University, some "signatures" in the brain properly correspond to one's political leanings - whether conservative or liberal.

The study is the largest to date to evaluate political ideology using MRI scans of the brain.

“Can we understand political behavior by looking solely at the brain?" In a university release, study co-author Skyler Cranmer, the Phillips and Henry Professor of Political Science at Ohio State, adds, "The answer is a fairly resounding 'yes.'" "The results suggest that the biological and neurological roots of political behavior run much deeper than we previously thought."

Researchers also looked at the brain's functional connectivity and how it relates to a person's ...

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