The differences between politically left- and right-leaning individuals may have roots in the brain, results from a new imaging study suggest. UC Berkeley investigators found that despite watching the same videos related to immigration policy, neural responses differed between liberals and conservatives. "This divergence was strongest when the videos used language that highlighted threat, morality, and emotions, suggesting that certain words are more likely to drive polarized response," said lead researcher Yuan Chang Leong, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar in cognitive neuroscience. For more on this, see our press release at Berkeley News. Stories on this topic have appeared in several sources, including Big Think, The Big Smoke, PsyPost, Medscape, Corriere della Sera (Italy), Faro de Vigo (Spain), and Videnscab (Denmark).