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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.