Sun, 21 Feb 2021 20:42 UTC
Antifa continued its destruction of Seattle despite Biden s election win Researchers have mapped an underlying psychological signature for people who are predisposed to holding extreme social, political or religious attitudes, and support violence in the name of ideology.
A new study suggests that a particular mix of
personality traits and unconscious cognition - the ways our brains take in basic information - is a strong predictor for extremist views across a range of beliefs, including nationalism and religious fervour.
These mental characteristics include
poorer working memory and slower perceptual strategies - the unconscious processing of changing stimuli, such as shape and colour - as well as