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Leor Zmigrod on the Ideological Brain

Social Science Bites by Michael Todd

Jul 1, 202522:27Society & Culture

Flexibility is a cardinal virtue in physical fitness, and according to political psychologist and neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod , it can be a cardinal virtue in our mental health, too. How she came to that conclusion and h...

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Leor Zmigrod on the Ideological Brain is an episode from Social Science Bites by Michael Todd. Flexibility is a cardinal virtue in physical fitness, and according to political psychologist and neuroscientist Leor Zmigrod , it can be a cardi...

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