A recent study published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that people on both sides of the immigration debate tend to endorse factual statements that align with their own beliefs and favor messages from people within their group. Importantly, the study showed that this behavior is reflected in brain activity. By analyzing participants’ brain responses, researchers identified neural patterns that predicted when people would overendorse messages that aligned with their views and downplay those that didn’t. In today’s highly polarized political environment, people are often qu…