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Dr Leor Zmigrod is a prize-winning scientist and pioneer in the field of 'political neuroscience.' She studied at Cambridge University as a Gates Scholar before winning a Junior Research Fellowship at Churchill College, Cambridge. Zmigrod has published over 30 peer-reviewed papers and has held visiting fellowships at Stanford, Harvard, and both the Berlin and Paris Institutes for Advanced Study. She was listed on 'Forbes 30 Under 30' in Science and has won numerous prizes, including the Women of the Future Science Award and the Glushko Prize. She has spoken at the Hay Festival and TEDx, and her research has been featured widely in the media, including in The New York Times, Guardian, Financial Times and New Scientist. Zmigrod advises policymakers at the United Nations, the UK and US governments, and other international organizations. This is her first book.
Filled with insightful findings, this book shows that ideological extremism and polarization are not just problems to fret about but puzzles that can be studied and understood -- Steven Pinker This remarkable book tells us something fascinating and heartening about the neuroscience of our inflexibilities and our dogmatisms. Lucid and eloquent, The Ideological Brain couldn't be more timely -- Adam Phillips
