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Slashdot readers will have noted this yesterday, but for those of you not trolling the net in search of arcane arguments among Linux geeks, Emory University announced the results of a study of the psychology of political partisianship, leading one site to conclude that “Democrats and Republicans alike are adept at making decisions without letting the facts get in the way…”

The test subjects on both sides of the political aisle reached totally biased conclusions by ignoring information that could not rationally be discounted, Westen and his colleagues say.

Then, with their minds made up, brain activity ceased in the areas that deal with negative emotions such as disgust. But activity spiked in the circuits involved in reward, a response similar to what addicts experience when they get a fix, Westen explained.

I mean, you’d always suspected, hadn’t you?