Brain shape may indicate which way our political allegiance lies

NEUROSCIENTISTS are examining whether political allegiances are hard-wired into people after finding evidence that brains of conservatives are a different shape to those of left-wingers.

Scans of 90 students’ brains at University College London uncovered a “strong correlation” between the thickness of two particular areas of grey matter and an individual’s views.

Self-proclaimed right-wingers had a more pronounced amygdala — a primitive part of the brain associated with emotion — while their political opponents had thicker anterior cingulates.