Now Playing
Current State - Current Sports
Most Active Stories
Connect with Us
Podcasts & RSS Feeds
| All Content |
| RSS |
| View all podcasts & RSS feeds | ||
Politics
1:00 pm
Mon March 5, 2012
Our Brains, Betrayed By Political Inconsistency
By editor
The human brain craves predictability, according to neuroscientists, and when politicians appear to flip-flop, our brains don't like it. Often, we feel betrayed. NPR science correspondents Jon Hamilton, Alix Spiegel and Shankar Vedantam talk about why we're hard-wired to appreciate consistency.