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The greatest research of its kind found that whether someone was politically conservative or liberal could be determined by brain scans taken while they were performing various tasks or simply doing nothing. The greatest predictor frequently used in political science studies, a person's parents' ideology, was shown to be just slightly less accurate in predicting political ideology than the "signatures" in the brain revealed by the scans, according to research. "Can we comprehend political conduct just by examining the brain? According to research co-author and Phillips and Henry Professor of Political Science at The Ohio State University Skyler Cranmer, "the response is a rather emphatic 'yes'. The findings imply that political conduct has deeper biological and neurological foundations than previously believed. The study is the largest to date to evaluate political ideology using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) images of the brain, and i...