• Confirmation bias is one of the interesting phenomena that causes us to seek out, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms our existing beliefs or assumptions (for example, our political ideology), while ignoring information that contradicts them.
  One of our recent studies shows that even in peaceful Finland, the brains of people with slightly different views on immigration (all in the study said they supported immigration) display neural mechanisms reflecting robust confirmation bias:

Polarized neural responses to political narratives are sensitive to small variations in self-reported political perspectives

 Zebarjadi et al. iScience, 2026 

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(25)02529-5

• To what extent do leftists and rightists think badly of each other?
  One of our recent studies shows that although leftists and rightists in Israel tend to think badly of each other on a conscious level, on an unconscious level, leftists also think badly of the left:

Asymmetry in political polarization at multiple levels of bias

Kluge, Adler et al.  Political Psychology, 2024

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/pops.12967