'The Ideological Brain' – Are Some People Hard-wired for Radicalisation?
Mar 19, 2025•54 min•Ep. 47
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Episode description
To coincide with the launch of her new book (The Ideological Brain - A Radical Science of Susceptible Minds) Rafael Behr talks to Dr Leor Zmigrod, a political psychologist and neuroscientist, about the ingredients of dogmatic thinking, why some of us are more prone than others, and how we can protect ourselves.
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