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People who favor group-based inequality tend to have less gray matter in an empathy-linked brain region


A preference for social hierarchy may be linked to both brain structure and motivation. Researchers found that people scoring higher in social dominance orientation had less gray matter in a region tied to empathy and emotion.

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