As the researchers defined them, right-wing authoritarians are people who ascribe to conservative ideologies and so-called “traditional values” who advocate for “punitive measures for social control,” while left-wing authoritarians are interested in “violently overthrow[ing] and [penalizing] the current structures of authority and power in society.”

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The left-wing authoritarians of the bunch … had less cortical (or outer brain layer) thickness in the right anterior insula, which is “associated with emotional empathy and behavioral inhibition.”

No comment made about right-wing authoritarians in the study.

The author, who is also part of an interdisciplinary research group called PseudoLab

Okay, this cannot be real…