171 - Partisan Brains

Published: Jan. 13, 2020, 5:59 a.m.

Jay Van Bavel studies “from neurons to social networks...how collective concerns -- group identities, moral values, and political beliefs -- shape the mind and brain,” and in this episode we travel to his office at NYU to sit down and ask him a zillion questions about how the brain uses motivated reasoning to create the separate realities we argue over on a daily basis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.