A study from the University of Zaragoza reveals that individuals with authoritarian beliefs showcase distinct brain activity related to social and emotional processing. Brain scans of 100 young adults indicated that both right-wing and left-wing authoritarians displayed differences compared to centrists, with right-wing authoritarians having reduced grey matter in areas related to perspective-taking. This highlights potential neurological underpinnings for authoritarianism, suggesting that these beliefs might be rooted in fundamentally different cognitive processing.
Participants who held authoritarian beliefs exhibited significant brain differences compared to their more centrist peers, particularly in areas linked to social reasoning and emotional regulation.
The study found that right-wing authoritarianism correlated with reduced grey matter volume in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, which is critical for understanding others' perspectives.
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