The Smell of Ideology — Rose McDermott at The Interval

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Channel: The Long Now Foundation · 2017 · Science & Technology

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"Liberals really don't like the sound of conservative voices. And conservatives really don't like the smell of liberals." Political psychologist Rose McDermott spoke at The Interval at Long Now on "Ideology in our Genes: the Biological Basis for Political Traits." Watch or listen to this talk in full: https://theinterval.org/salon-talks/02016/jul/19/ideology-our-genes-biological-basis-political-traits

Rose was a 02016 fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford University. Long Now proudly features CASBS fellows in our "Conversations at The Interval" series, an ongoing long-term thinking lecture series in San Francisco.

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