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Choices about political candidates and issues are inherently limited and imperfect, leading many people to feel mixed emotions, and even conflicting opinions, about which candidate or position they prefer.
In general, being ambivalent reduces political participation. For example, the more ambivalent a person is about candidates in an election, the less likely that person is to vote.
We are social psychologists who study how people’s beliefs affect their behavior.
In a new article in the journal Science Advances, we find something that runs counter to that trend of uninvolved ambivalence: The more ambivalent a person is about a political issue, the more likely they are to support violence and other extreme actions relating to that topic.
Ambivalent people are more supportive of extreme actions
In one study in a series we conducted, we measured the opinions of several thousand people across several surveys on one of several topics, such as abortion, gun control or COVID-19 policies. We also measured how ambivalent they were about that opinion. Then we asked about their willingness to potentially engage in various actions in support of their opinion. Some of the actions were ordinary, such as voting for candidates whom the participants agreed with, donating money or volunteering. Other actions were more extreme, such as engaging in violence against their partisan opponents.
In other studies, we examined national data collected by researchers at the Democracy Fund Voter Study Group and the Cooperative Election Study that included similar questions.
When we analyzed the links between people’s ambivalence and their willingness to engage in or support each behavior, we found that the results in all the studies depended on the behaviors’ extremity. As expected, more ambivalent people were less willing to support or engage in the moderate actions, such as voting. But contrary to our initial expectations, people who felt more ambivalent were also more willing to support or engage in the extreme actions, especially if they felt strongly about the issue.
Handling discomfort
In subsequent studies, we tried to understand why more ambivalent people express more support for extreme political actions, from confronting one’s political opponents or campaigning to get them fired to even more extreme acts, including violence.
We thought one factor might be the psychological discomfort that ambivalent people experience: When people feel uncomfortable about their beliefs, they often look for ways to compensate by signaling strength. For instance, when their beliefs are challenged, people sometimes respond by supporting them even more strongly.
Similarly, we thought ambivalent people might support extreme actions because they feel uneasy and want to signal clarity and conviction about their beliefs.
Our results were consistent with this idea that people might compensate for their discomfort by supporting extreme actions: When we asked how uncomfortable participants felt about the opinions they held on the issue, more ambivalent people reported feeling less comfortable with their views, which was also related to them supporting extreme behaviors more.
Extreme actions with real stakes
These are hypothetical behaviors, though. Are more ambivalent people actually more willing to take extreme actions?
We tested this by asking people about specific actions with real consequences. We gave participants a chance to allocate money to pro-environmental organizations known for their radical ideologies and tactics, such as sabotaging energy infrastructure and obstructing traffic – JustStopOil and EarthFirst! Alternatively, participants could opt for a chance to win some of or all the money themselves.
We found that people who were ambivalent about environmentalism allocated more money to JustStopOil and EarthFirst! than people who were not ambivalent, especially if they felt strongly about environmental issues. And this was specific to the radical charities. When given the same opportunity to donate to mainstream organizations – the Sierra Club and The Nature Conservancy – ambivalent people did not allocate more money than nonambivalent people.
We didn’t directly test why people would strongly support environmentalism despite feeling ambivalent about environmental issues. But perhaps it’s that people who worry about climate change also are concerned about the economic consequences of addressing it. Or people who struggle to make environmentally friendly choices and feel like they are not living up to their own standards. Or maybe people with a more general type of political ambivalence, such as a belief that even good policies have trade-offs.
A bigger picture
The link between ambivalence and supporting extreme actions in our studies was one of correlation – where two items are connected but the cause of that connection is not determined. So we can’t be sure ambivalence is the cause of that support. Maybe the relationship goes the other way, and supporting extreme actions makes people more ambivalent. Or maybe some other factor that we overlooked affects both.
But when we looked for evidence for these alternative explanations, we didn’t find much. For example, changing whether we asked about ambivalence before or after asking about support for the extreme actions didn’t affect the results. And although extreme behavior is related to other factors, such as tendency toward aggressiveness, even when we compared people who were equal on those other factors, ambivalence still mattered. Still, we don’t know everything about the relationship between ambivalence and extreme action.
The psychology of extreme behavior is complex. To explain its causes, many studies highlight that some people are especially susceptible to extremism, including those who struggle to regulate their emotions. Our research suggests another possibility: that some beliefs themselves have characteristics – especially ambivalence – that promote support for extreme actions.
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A recent study published in the journal Psychology of Music details an intriguing interaction between the auditory and visual senses. Researchers discovered that lower-pitched music tends to make people perceive visual objects as darker, while higher-pitched music leads to perceptions of brighter visuals.
Music is a constant part of our lives, often paired with visual elements in movies, advertisements, and everyday situations. For example, think about how music sets the mood in a film or how it enhances the impact of an advertisement. While it is known that music can affect our emotions and interpretations, the researchers wanted to investigate a more specific question: Does the pitch of music (how high or low it sounds) influence how we perceive the brightness of visual objects?
Past studies have shown that our senses can influence each other. For instance, ominous music can make scenes in movies feel more threatening, and upbeat music can make products in ads seem more appealing. However, there was a gap in understanding how the specific attribute of musical pitch affects visual perception. This study aimed to fill that gap.
The study involved 30 university students from South Korea, with an average age of approximately 24 years. All participants reported normal or corrected-to-normal vision and normal hearing, and two were music degree students.
Participants sat approximately 102 cm away from an LCD monitor that displayed the visual stimuli while the music played through headphones. Each visual object was paired with either a high-pitched or low-pitched musical excerpt. The brightness of each visual object was assessed by the participants on a scale from 1 (dark) to 7 (bright) after listening to the accompanying music.
The musical stimuli consisted of 80 excerpts derived and modified from a previous study to ensure they conveyed specific emotions effectively. These pieces were adjusted to either a higher or lower pitch, resulting in 40 higher-pitched and 40 lower-pitched versions. Importantly, only the pitch was altered, while other musical attributes like tempo and harmony remained constant.
For visual stimuli, 20 different visual objects were created, including figures, numbers, letters, and runes. All visual stimuli were displayed in a uniform gray color to maintain a consistent level of brightness. The visual objects were presented against a nearly white background to minimize discomfort from screen glare.
The results indicated a significant influence of musical pitch on visual brightness judgments. Lower-pitched music led to darker brightness ratings across all categories of visual stimuli, while higher-pitched music resulted in brighter ratings. Specifically, visual objects paired with lower-pitched music had an average brightness rating of around 3.2, whereas those paired with higher-pitched music were rated around 3.5.
•Figures: Visual objects were rated at an average brightness of 3.11 with lower-pitched music, compared to 3.36 with higher-pitched music.
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•Numbers: Brightness ratings averaged 3.29 with lower-pitched music and 3.51 with higher-pitched music.
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•Letters: Participants rated the brightness of letters at 3.22 with lower-pitched music and 3.52 with higher-pitched music.
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•Runes: The average brightness rating was 3.10 for lower-pitched music and 3.44 for higher-pitched music.
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The results provide empirical evidence supporting the theory that simultaneous auditory and visual cues can influence each other, leading to a more integrated sensory experience.
“These findings are consistent with prior research showing that what we hear can modulate how we visually interpret cues,” the researchers wrote. “Previous studies have focused on the effects of musical pitch across various cognitive domains, including inference, preference, and decision-making.”
“Extending these findings, this study provides valuable insights into how pitch, as a musical feature, can shape the brightness interpretation of visual experiences. Given the intertwined and concurrent nature of musical sounds and visual events in everyday life, we believe that these findings could contribute to a deeper understanding of the intricate interplay that occurs in the human brain when processing music and visual information in daily situations.”
While the study offers valuable insights, it also has limitations. The sample consisted primarily of young adults from a university setting, which may not be representative of the general population. Additionally, the controlled environment might not fully capture the complexity of real-world sensory experiences. Future research could explore these effects in more diverse populations and everyday settings, such as busy streets or virtual reality environments.
Further investigations could also examine the neural mechanisms underlying these sensory interactions using techniques like functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Understanding whether the observed effects stem from early sensory processing or later cognitive stages would provide deeper insights into how our brains integrate auditory and visual information.
The study, “Concurrent musical pitch height biases judgment of visual brightness,” You Jeong Hong, Ahyeon Choi, Chae-Eun Lee, WooJae Cho, Sumin Yoon, and Kyogu Lee.
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Since President Joe Biden's poor debate performance last month, some Democratic lawmakers are calling on him to take a cognitive test to illustrate his mental capacity. Thursday night, Biden was asked during a press conference following the NATO summit if he would take a cognitive test. He said he had already taken three "significant and intense" neurological exams, one as recently as February, and added that being president is its own daily...
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A recent study published in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry reveals that females with ADHD are diagnosed approximately four years later than males, potentially leading to a higher burden of concurrent psychiatric conditions and increased utilization of healthcare services.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a lifelong condition characterized by symptoms of impulsivity, hyperactivity, and inattention. The disorder is associated with increased behaviors and consequences such as sexual risk-taking, substance use disorders, criminality, and academic underachievement.
Previous research has shown that ADHD is often underdiagnosed in females, with estimates of roughly 3 to 16 males being diagnosed for every female.
Concerned with the potential of significant challenges during the formative years and beyond, the research team embarked on this study to explore the diagnostic delay in females with ADHD and to assess the impact of this delay on their health outcomes.
Led by Charlotte Skoglund from Uppsala University in Sweden, the group conducted a population-based, cross-sectional cohort study involving 85,330 individuals with ADHD living in Stockholm County, using data from the Regional Healthcare Data Warehouse of Region Stockholm.
These individuals were required to possess at least one record of ADHD diagnosis and/or stimulant or non-stimulant medication for ADHD, and were matched to 426,626 healthy controls from the population.
The main measurement outcome was age at ADHD-index (i.e. ADHD diagnosis). Psychiatric comorbidity, pharmacological treatment, and health care utilization, prior to and after ADHD-index, were also measured.
Following statistical analysis, the researchers found that females with ADHD were diagnosed at an average age of 23.5 years, compared to 19.6 years for males.
Moreover, the results demonstrated that psychiatric comorbidity was more common: “females with ADHD were approximately twice as likely compared to males with ADHD to be diagnosed with both anxiety disorders (50.4% vs. 25.9%) and mood disorders (37.5% vs. 19.5%).”
Skoglund and colleagues also reported higher pharmacological treatment, “five years prior to ADHD-index females showed a higher use of anticonvulsants, neuroleptics, sedatives, and hypnotics, as well as psychoanaleptics, compared to males… Two years after index, females with ADHD still showed a significantly higher use of anticonvulsants, neuroleptics, sedatives, hypnotics, and psychoanaleptics, compared to males with ADHD.”
Finally, an increased healthcare utilization was evident, “females with ADHD were more likely than males with ADHD to have both an in- and outpatient psychiatric health care event across the entire study period.”
The researchers emphasized that “early detection, diagnosis, and treatment are important to reduce the risk of serious distress, morbidity, mortality, and impairments in life.”
However, it is important to note that the study only included data captured from publicly-funded registry, which may not capture individuals who are not in contact with health care services. The researchers also noted that the severity of different disorders were not measured.
The study, “Time after time: failure to identify and support females with ADHD – a Swedish population register study”, was authored by Charlotte Skoglund, Inger Sundstrom Poromaa, Daniel Leksell, Katarina Ekholm Selling, Thomas Cars, Maibritt Giacobini, Susan Young, and Helena Kopp Kallner.
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New results could ultimately help lead to interventions that spark creative thought or aid people who have mental illnesses that disrupt these regions of the brain.
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Scientists have found that damage to a specific brain region, the magnocellular mediodorsal thalamus, in monkeys caused behaviors similar to those seen in humans with paranoia, such as heightened sensitivity to changes and difficulty learning from outcomes. These findings, published in Cell Reports, suggest that this brain region plays a critical role in the development of paranoia, providing a potential target for future treatments.
Previous research has established that the ability to form and adjust beliefs about actions and their consequences is essential for advanced cognition. Disruptions in this ability are linked to maladaptive cognitive and behavioral states, such as paranoia.
Paranoia is a mental state characterized by intense and irrational suspicion or mistrust of others, often involving beliefs that others intend to harm or deceive. It can manifest as exaggerated feelings of persecution or conspiracies against oneself.
Prior studies have implicated various brain regions, including the prefrontal cortex and the thalamus, in the processes of belief updating and paranoia. However, the exact mechanisms and specific brain regions responsible for these disruptions remain unclear.
One approach to studying these mechanisms has been the use of probabilistic reversal learning tasks, which require individuals to adapt their choices based on changing reward contingencies. This method has been effective in identifying behavioral patterns associated with flexibility and persistence in decision-making. While these studies have provided valuable insights, they often focus solely on human subjects or a single species, limiting the ability to generalize findings across different species and neural architectures.
The authors behind the new research sought to address these limitations by adopting a cross-species approach that aligns data from monkeys with human data
The study involved a total of twenty male rhesus macaque monkeys and 1,225 online human participants, categorized based on their levels of paranoia. The monkeys were divided into groups with excitotoxic lesions in either the magnocellular mediodorsal thalamus (MDmc) or the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), and a control group with no lesions. The lesions were created surgically, and the monkeys’ subsequent behavior was compared to that of the control group.
Both monkeys and human participants completed a probabilistic reversal learning task, which required them to choose between three options with changing reward probabilities. For the monkeys, this task was performed on a touch-sensitive monitor, with food pellets as rewards. In the human version of the task, participants received points instead of food. The task involved an initial phase where one option had the highest probability of reward, followed by a reversal phase where the reward probabilities changed, requiring participants to adjust their choices accordingly.
“Participants have to figure out what’s the best target, and when there’s a perceived change in the environment, the participant then has to find the new best target,” said Steve Chang, associate professor of psychology and of neuroscience in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences and co-senior author of the study.
Behavioral data were collected on win-switching (changing choices after a reward) and lose-staying (repeating choices after no reward) behaviors, indicative of flexibility and persistence in decision-making. Computational modeling using the hierarchical Gaussian filter (HGF) was employed to estimate belief parameters related to volatility (the tendency to expect changes) and value learning (the rate of learning about the values of each option). These parameters helped quantify how participants updated their beliefs in response to changes in reward contingencies.
“Not only did we use data in which monkeys and humans performed the same task, we also applied the same computational analysis to both datasets,” said Philip Corlett, an associate professor of psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine and co-senior author of the study. “The computational model is essentially a series of equations that we can use to try to explain the behavior, and here it serves as the common language between the human and monkey data and allows us to compare the two and see how the monkey data relates to the human data.”
The study found significant differences in behavior and belief updating between the lesion groups and the control group of monkeys. Monkeys with lesions in the MDmc exhibited increased win-switching and reduced lose-staying behaviors, indicating heightened sensitivity to changes in reward contingencies.
These monkeys also showed elevated volatility beliefs and decreased value learning rates, particularly after the reversal in reward probabilities. This pattern suggests that MDmc lesions lead to an exaggerated response to perceived changes in the environment, similar to behaviors observed in paranoid individuals.
In contrast, monkeys with OFC lesions displayed the opposite pattern: decreased win-switching, increased lose-staying, and elevated value learning rates, with no significant change in volatility beliefs. This behavior indicates a failure to adapt to changes in reward contingencies, leading to more persistent and less flexible decision-making. The computational models supported these observations, showing distinct effects of the lesions on belief updating parameters.
When comparing these findings to human participants, those with high levels of paranoia exhibited similar patterns to the MDmc-lesioned monkeys. High-paranoia individuals showed higher win-switching rates and elevated volatility beliefs, along with lower value learning rates. These parallels suggest that the MDmc plays a critical role in the processes underlying paranoia, and that disruptions in this region can lead to behaviors associated with excessive sensitivity to environmental changes and difficulties in learning from outcomes.
By demonstrating how specific brain lesions affect decision-making and belief updating in monkeys and drawing parallels to human paranoia, the research offers new insights into the neural mechanisms of paranoia.
“It allows us to ask how we can translate what we learn in simpler species — like rats, mice, maybe even invertebrates — to understand human cognition,” said Corlett, who, along with Chang, is a member of Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute, which aims to accelerate understanding of human cognition.
“It could also enable researchers to evaluate the precise mechanisms by which pharmaceutical treatments influence brain activity related to states like paranoia. “And maybe down the road we can use it to find new ways to reduce paranoia in humans,” added Chang.
The study, “Lesions to the mediodorsal thalamus, but not orbitofrontal cortex, enhance volatility beliefs linked to paranoia,” was authored by Praveen Suthaharan, Summer L. Thompson, Rosa A. Rossi-Goldthorpe, Peter H. Rudebeck, Mark E. Walton, Subhojit Chakraborty, Maryann P. Noonan, Vincent D. Costa, Elisabeth A. Murray, Christoph D. Mathys, Stephanie M. Groman, Anna S. Mitchell, Jane R. Taylor, Philip R. Corlett, and Steve W.C. Chang.
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In a recent mouse-model study researchers have now found that the cerebellum also controls thirst, a major function necessary for survival. Specifically, the research team found that a hormone, asprosin, crosses from the periphery into the brain to activate Purkinje neurons in the cerebellum. This leads to an enhanced drive to seek and drink water.
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A neuroimaging study on how humans respond to chocolate revealed that the human brain reacts faster to images of familiar chocolates compared to those of unfamiliar chocolates. However, choosing unfamiliar chocolates over familiar ones elicited stronger brain responses in the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus and right caudate head regions. The research was published in the Journal of Neuroimaging.
When a person eats something delicious or achieves success, they typically experience feelings of pleasure. These feelings are produced by the brain’s reward system, a network of structures responsible for regulating feelings of pleasure and motivation. Key components of this system are located in the nucleus accumbens, the ventral tegmental area, and the prefrontal cortex.
When a person experiences something rewarding, this system releases dopamine, a neurotransmitter that signals pleasure. This dopamine release activates specific neural structures, making the person more likely to repeat the behavior that led to the dopamine release, thereby experiencing pleasure again.
The prefrontal cortex helps regulate and control these reward-driven behaviors by making decisions and weighing the consequences. Dysfunction in the brain reward system can lead to addiction, where the system becomes hijacked by substances or behaviors that trigger excessive dopamine release, leading to compulsive actions. For this reason, understanding how the brain reward system functions attracts a lot of research interest. These findings might be crucial for developing treatments for various forms of addictions and other disorders related to motivation and reward.
Study author Senal Peiris and his colleagues examined how familiar and unfamiliar chocolate brands influence reward processing for people who love chocolate. They focused on wanting the chocolate, which is associated with craving, and on liking it, which is associated with pleasurable experiences.
They hypothesized that chocolate lovers would have increased neural activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex when selecting familiar chocolate brands, but show reduced neural activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex when selecting unfamiliar chocolate brands because this decision-making is based on reasoning.
In reward processing, these two brain areas have somewhat different functions. The ventromedial prefrontal cortex is believed to be primarily involved in evaluating the value of rewards and making decisions based on those values, while the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex is believed to be involved in reasoning-based decisions about rewards by integrating information and applying cognitive control to make thoughtful, goal-oriented choices.
The study participants were 24 healthy adults aged between 19 and 45 years, with an average age of 25. They volunteered for the study by responding to an advertisement recruiting “Chocolate lovers” and received $50 gift cards for their participation. For selection purposes, the researchers had candidates complete an assessment that characterizes preferences for chocolates (the Chocolate Questionnaire), ensuring all participants were indeed chocolate lovers. Selected participants completed two experiments while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging.
Before the start of these experiments, participants were asked to list their three favorite chocolate brands, followed by all brands of chocolate they could remember. Twenty-three of the 24 participants listed Hershey’s among their top three favorites, followed by Dove (listed by 17 participants among the top 3). Because of this, the researchers used Hershey’s and Dove to create a category of familiar chocolates for the experiments.
Neither Perugina nor Landmark Confections appeared on either list for any of the participants, and participants confirmed that these two brands (popular in Europe but not in the United States) were unfamiliar brands of chocolate and that they had never tasted them before. The researchers based the unfamiliar chocolate category on these two brands.
In the first experiment, participants viewed pictures of familiar and unfamiliar chocolates while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging and rated how much they craved and liked each brand. Each image was presented 14 times, for a total of 56 trials. In the second experiment, participants viewed the same images but paired so that one familiar and one unfamiliar chocolate type were shown side by side. Participants had to indicate their preference. There were 24 trials in this experiment.
Results showed that participants craved and liked familiar chocolates more. In the preference experiment, they chose familiar chocolates in 62% of the trials. When the researchers compared how much participants craved and liked chocolates and whether they chose them in the preference experiment, results showed that participants who reported craving unfamiliar chocolates more were also more likely to select them over familiar chocolates. On the other hand, participants who liked familiar chocolates more were more likely to choose them over unfamiliar chocolates.
Neuroimaging data showed that when just viewing pictures of chocolates, the right posterior middle temporal gyrus and left superior occipital gyrus regions were more strongly activated by unfamiliar chocolates. The left and right inferior frontal gyrus and right caudate head were more strongly activated in individuals who chose unfamiliar chocolates. The researchers believe that these regions are part of the neural network recruited when a person chooses unfamiliar chocolates over familiar ones. Neural responses were faster to images of familiar chocolates.
“The choices for branded chocolate products are driven by higher subjective reward ratings and lower neural processing demands,” the researchers concluded.
The study sheds light on how brain responses depend on the familiarity of chocolate brands. However, it also has limitations that need to be considered. Notably, the study was based on a very small number of participants, and conclusions might be limited to chocolate lovers. Results might not be the same in individuals whose preferences for chocolates are less pronounced.
The paper, “Neural correlates of chocolate brand preference: A functional MRI study,” was authored by Senal Peiris, Michael J. Tobia, Andrew Smith, Emily Grun, Rommy Elyan, Paul J. Eslinger, Qing X. Yang, and Prasanna Karunanayaka.
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