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SUMMARY:Gates Cambridge presents Dr Leor Zmigrod\, author of 'The Ideologi
 cal Brain' - Dr Leor Zmigrod
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DESCRIPTION:Join us as Gates Cambridge Trustee Prof. Usha Goswami welcomes
  Dr Leor Zmigrod [2016]\, a political psychologist and neuroscientist\, an
 d author of The Ideological Brain.\n\nLeor's research centers on what make
 s some individuals most susceptible to extreme and dogmatic ideologies. Sh
 e studied at Cambridge University as a Gates Scholar before winning a Juni
 or Research Fellowship at Churchill College\, Cambridge. She has held visi
 ting fellowships at Stanford\, Harvard\, and both the Berlin and Paris Ins
 titutes for Advanced Study. She was listed on ‘Forbes 30 Under 30’ in 
 Science and has won numerous prizes\, including the Women of the Future Sc
 ience Award and the Glushko Prize. The Ideological Brain is her first book
  and is currently being translated into over 15 languages.\n\nThis convers
 ation will explore why some individuals are particularly susceptible to ex
 treme worldviews and how features of their brains and everyday thought pat
 terns can propel people towards rigid belief systems. Through research in 
 the new field of 'political neuroscience'\, Dr Leor Zmigrod will discuss e
 vidence that there are psychological and even neurobiological differences 
 between adherents to different ideologies\, and that our brains come to re
 flect the ideologies we hold in real and striking ways.\n\nThe conversatio
 n will delve into why the stakes of embracing an extreme ideology are much
  higher than we typically assume – if our brains and bodies echo our ide
 ologies\, then extremism is not just a political issue\, it is also a prof
 oundly personal and existential problem. The conversation will also discus
 s why it is increasingly urgent to think deeply about the origins of ideol
 ogical convictions and the consequences of adopting binary worldviews – 
 as well as what it means to think and exist flexibly in a world determined
  to position us in narrow boxes.\n
LOCATION:Bill Gates Sr House\, 17 Mill Lane\, Cambridge\, CB2 1RX
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