The word "ideology" has become a fixture in American political rhetoric, invoked by leaders to cast opponents' beliefs as dangerous, stupid or unfounded. But it wasn't always this way.

Conservative voters have slightly larger amygdalas than progressive voters—by about the size of a sesame seed. In a replication study publishing September 19 in the Cell Press journal iScience, ...

To the extent that partisanship is associated with certain health outcomes and risk behaviors, if routine questions on respondents’ political attitudes and ideology were added to population health ...

The contemporary world offers many examples of ideology apparently run amok. Some of these ideologies—“wokism” or “white nationalism”, for example—seem to have emerged as entirely new phenomena, ...

Ordinarily the word “ideology” has a pejorative connotation in American usage. That overtone seems even more pronounced with “ideologue,” which is always derogatory. A partial exception could be made ...

How does brain activity affect world politics? Source: Gerd Altmann/Pixabay Political and psychological researchers at Ohio State University, New York University, and the University of Pittsburgh ...