> What I thought was interesting is that if political decision-making is performed by an area in the brain that is completely separate from, for example, proble

> What I thought was interesting is that if political decision-making is performed by an area in the brain that is completely separate from, for example, problem-solving, then this fact doesn't play very well with the above theory. It's meaningless to perform a study on adults. By the time we're adults, our views are more or less set. At that point, your brain is simply retrieving an already established pattern and there's no need to store it in the same place where it was constructed. Doing a study on adolescents would be more meaningful. Or perhaps confronting people with an issue they have never encountered before and forcing them to pick a side.