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

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/a-nation-exhausted-the-neuroscience-of-why-americans-are-tuning-out-politics/
- Published: 2024-12-26T09:15:50-06:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

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. […] Click here to view original web page at theconversation.com