Emotions Win Out in Brains of Partisans

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ATLANTA - Loyal Republicans listening to President Bush's State of the Union speech tonight are apt to embrace his words, and staunch Democrats likely will scoff at them. But facts will have little to do with how either side reaches their conclusions.

A study from Emory University, which for the first time examined the brains of political partisans, found that it's emotion - not reason - that drives the political thought process.

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Emotions Win Out in Brains of Partisans

Committed partisans will reach emotionally biased decisions, hearing those things...

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