Cambridge University: people with extremist views less able to do complex mental tasks

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This explains a lot. An interesting short read.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021...h-suggests

A key finding was that people with extremist attitudes tended to think about the world in black and white terms, and struggled with complex tasks that required intricate mental steps, said lead author Dr Leor Zmigrod at Cambridge’s department of psychology.

“Individuals or brains that struggle to process and plan complex action sequences may be more drawn to extreme ideologies, or authoritarian ideologies that simplify the world,” she said. wrote:

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It all goes back to the father.

And the mother…

-S. Freud