ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Intolerance of uncertainty modulates brain-to-brain synchrony during politically polarized perception.
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Political partisans see the world through an ideologically biased lens. What drives political polarization? Although it has been posited that polarization arises because of an inability to tolerate uncertainty and a need to hold predictable beliefs about the world, evidence for this hypothesis remains elusive. We examined the relationship between uncertainty tolerance and political polarization using a combination of brain-to-brain synchrony and intersubject representational similarity analysis, which measured committed liberals' and conservatives' (
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