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   Study Predicts Political Beliefs With 83 Percent Accuracy Scans show that   
   liberals and conservatives use different parts of the brain when they take   
   risks, helping to pinpoint the political party a person prefers By Marina Koren   
   smithsonianmag.com   
   February 14, 2013   
      
   If you want to know people's politics, tradition said to study their parents.   
   In fact, the party affiliation of someone's parents can predict the child's   
   political leanings about around 70 percent of the time.   
      
   But new research, published yesterday in the journal PLOS ONE, suggests what   
   mom and dad think isn't the endgame when it comes to shaping a person's   
   political identity. Ideological differences between partisans may reflect   
   distinct neural processes, and they can predict who's right and who's left of   
   center with 82.9 percent accuracy, outperforming the "your parents pick your   
   party" model. It also out-predicts another neural model based on differences   
   in brain structure, which distinguishes liberals from conservatives with 71.6   
   percent accuracy.   
   [...]   
   The idea that the brains of Democrats and Republicans may be hard-wired to   
   their beliefs is not new. Previous research has shown that during MRI scans,   
   areas linked to broad social connectedness, which involves friends and the   
   world at large, light up in Democrats' brains. Republicans, on the other hand,   
   show more neural activity in parts of the brain associated with tight social   
   connectedness, which focuses on family and country. [...]   
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