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Brown: Politically Polarized Brains Share an Intolerance of Uncertainty
May 14, 2021
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, May 14 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release:

Since the 1950s, political scientists have theorized that political polarization -- increased numbers of "political partisans" who view the world with an ideological bias -- is associated with an inability to tolerate uncertainty and a need to hold predictable beliefs about the world.

But little is known about the biological mechanisms through which such biased per . . .

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