Sean Illing talks with Leor Zmigrod, political psychologist and neuroscientist and author of The Ideological Brain.

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What do you do when you’re faced with evidence that challenges your ideology? Do you engage with that new information? Are you willing to change your mind about your most deeply held beliefs? Are you pre-disposed to be more rigid or more flexible in your thinking?

That’s what political psychologist and neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod studies. In her new book The Ideological Brain, she examines the connection between our biology, our psychology, and our political beliefs.

In today’s episode, Leor speaks with Sean about rigid vs flexible thinking, how our biology and ideology influence each other, and the conditions under which our ideology is more likely to become extreme.

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