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- Title
Authoritarianism, religious fundamentalism, and the human prefrontal cortex.
- Authors
Asp, Erik; Ramchandran, Kanchna; Tranel, Daniel
- Abstract
The psychological processes of doubting and skepticism have recently become topics of neuroscientific investigation. In this context, we developed the False Tagging Theory, a neurobiological model of the belief and doubt process, which proposes that the prefrontal cortex is critical for normative doubt regarding properly comprehended cognitive representations. Here, we put our theory to an empirical test, hypothesizing that patients with prefrontal cortex damage would have a doubt deficit that would manifest as higher authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism.
- Publication
Neuropsychology, 2012, Vol 26, Issue 4, p414
- ISSN
1931-1559
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1037/a0028526