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One third of Americans still think Biden’s victory in 2020 was illegitimate. What gives?

On average, anomalous faces were more likely to be associated with negative personality characteristics, including untrustworthiness and anxiety.

The researchers, whose findings were published in the  Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, used surveys, social simulations, and functional MRI studies to study hundreds of participants’ responses and attitudes towards attractive, average, and anomalous faces. The findings clarify how the “anomalous is bad” stereotype manifests, and implicate a brain region called the amygdala as one of the likely mediators of this stereotype. “Understanding the psychology of the ‘anomalous is bad’ stereotype can help, for example, in the design of interventions to educate the public abou...

Research from Penn Medicine shows brain responses and attitudes reinforce the “anomalous is bad” stereotype.