Polarization & Politics
The Ideological Brain
By Leor Zmigrod
A Cambridge neuroscientist’s research on cognitive rigidity as a driver of ideological extremity across the political spectrum, not just one side.
Book
2025

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A Cambridge neuroscientist’s research on cognitive rigidity as a driver of ideological extremity across the political spectrum, not just one side.

About the Author

Leor Zmigrod completed her PhD as a Gates Scholar at Cambridge, where she was also a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College, and has held visiting fellowships at Stanford, Harvard, and research institutes in Paris and Berlin. This is her first book.
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Leor Zmigrod

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2025

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Polarization & Politics

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