A nation exhausted: The neuroscience of why Americans are tuning out politics

Photo credit: Anna Shvets via Pexels. Article by Arash Javanbakht. The Conversation – December 19, 2024.

“I am definitely not following the news anymore,” one patient told me when I asked about her political news consumption in the weeks before the 2024 U.S. presidential election. This conversation happened around the time I talked with a local TV channel about why we saw fewer political yard signs during this year’s election season, compared with past ones. […]

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