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New research shows that emotion can play a much larger role than reason in the voting booth. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Newsmakers)

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Inside the political mind

Broadcast: Midmorning, 08/21/2006, 10:06 a.m.
Broadcast: Midmorning, 10/12/2006, 10:06 a.m.

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New brain imaging studies show that political allegiance affects how people view candidates, and that among political partisans emotion often trumps reason. Midmorning rebroadcasts a conversation with two psychologists about politics and the brain.

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  • Drew Westen: Professor of psychology at Emory University.
  • Jonas Kaplan: Assistant research psychologist with the Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center at UCLA.

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