'We’re not finding anything bizarre going on with the brain... It’s just normal functions being directed in a particular way.'
The part of the brain associated with subjective value was active when a subject was willing to fight and die for a cause.
"In most people’s day to day activities you have both mechanisms working in tandem. Even if someone’s thinking, 'That hamburger looks really good, I want to eat it', they’re still thinking, 'It’s a lot of calories and I'll feel bad afterwards.'"Activity in the part of the brain associated with deliberative reasoning was lower when a subject considered willingness to fight and die for"sacred values" than when they considered"non-sacred" values .
After learning their"peers'" responses, the subjects were asked the same question again. The second time, they altered their answers. Crucially, if they were told that their peers were less willing to fight and die for a cause than they were, the subjects expressed outrage, but ultimately lowered their willingness, as well.
Asked why the subjects participated in the research, given that it would be used to the end of mitigating extremism, Hamid said they were willing because it was an objective analysis which"fairly" represents who they are without depicting them as"crazy". "It’s in those more helpless states, so to speak, that an extremist group can come in and align itself with the identity of the excluded and say, 'We’re going to stand up for you – ally yourself with us and join us in the fight against the establishment'."
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