Democrats vs Republicans - Which Brain is Better?

Will our brains affect who wins the midterm election? We Ate Like Astronauts! https://youtu.be/6wwhbOaFuMI Our podast is on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NiCugVdwmmA Created by: Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown Written by: Matthew Carter, Rachel Salt, Greg Brown & Mitch Moffit Illustrated by: Max Simmons Edited by: Sel Ghebrehiwot FOLLOW US! Instagram and Twitter: @whalewatchmeplz and @mitchellmoffit Clickable: http://bit.ly/16F1jeC and http://bit.ly/15J7ube AsapINSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/asapscience/ Facebook: http://facebook.com/AsapSCIENCE Twitter: http://twitter.com/AsapSCIENCE Tumblr: http://asapscience.tumblr.com Created by Mitchell Moffit (twitter @mitchellmoffit) and Gregory Brown (twitter @whalewatchmeplz). Send us stuff! ASAPSCIENCE INC. P.O. Box 93, Toronto P Toronto, ON, M5S2S6 References: Study Predicts Political Beliefs With 83 Percent Accuracy https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/study-predicts-political-beliefs-with-83-percen-accuracy-17536124/ Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211002892#bib3 Rapid communication: The politics of insight http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1080/17470218.2015.1136338 Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism https://www.nature.com/articles/nn1979 A Very Brief View at the Role of the Prefrontal Cortex in Political Behaviour https://galindes.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/a-very-brief-view-at-the-role-of-the-prefrontal-cortex-in-political-behaviour/ Politics on the brain: An fMRI investigation https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17470910600670603 Association between Ability Emotional Intelligence and Left Insula during Social Judgment of Facial Emotions https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0148621 Personality influences the neural responses to viewing facial expressions of emotion http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/366/1571/1684#sec-3 These key psychological differences can determine whether you're liberal or conservative https://www.businessinsider.com/psychological-differences-between-conservatives-and-liberals-2018-2 Conservative Shift among Liberals and Conservatives Following 9/11/01 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11211-009-0098-z Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/jost.glaser.political-conservatism-as-motivated-social-cog.pdf https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/654127241/nature-nurture-and-your-politics