Leor Zmigrod
In this episode, Professor Paul Dolan talks to political psychologist and neuroscientist Dr Leor Zmigrod about how neuroscience can shed light on our beliefs and the extremes we sometimes cling to. Leor believes that ideologies restrict our capacity to be free but Paul is not so sure.
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How to Keep Your Mind Open with Dr Leor Zmigrod
Intelligence does not protect you from dogmatism. In some cases, it makes it worse.This is one of the more unsettling findings to emerge from the work of Dr. Leor Zmigrod, neuroscientist at Cambridge and author of The Ideological Brain. Her research reveals that ideology is not defined by what you …
The Radical Science of Flexible Thinking with Leor Zmigrod
Are our political beliefs hard-wired into our biology?
In the season two premiere of Conversation Changers, host Eric Olander sits down with Leor Zmigrod, a leading political neuroscientist and Salzburg Global Fellow, to explore the fascinating intersection of brain science and ideology.
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Leor Zmigrod on why rigid thinking makes us vulnerable to extremism
Are you as open-minded as you think you are? People who rate themselves as highly adaptable often score as the most rigid during unconscious cognitive testing.
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'What Is An Ideological Brain?', Leor Zmigrod (Summer Edit)
Forget fascism and communism for a second. Leor Zmigrod studies ideology as a way of thinking, not a specific set of beliefs, and that reframe changes the whole conversation.
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'How To Become Less Dogmatic', Leor Zmigrod (Summer Edit)
Leor Zmigrod won't hand you a five-step plan to become a more flexible thinker, because that would just be another rigid system to follow. Instead she offers two things worth sitting with: question the rules and routines that quietly narrow your life, and chase creativity that actually breaks the m…
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