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McPalin or Obiden? Politics as Group Identification

Why did politics become an important group identifier?

By Paul J. Zak on October 15, 2008 - 9:33am in The Moral Molecule

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	Paul J. Zak is a neuroeconomist and director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University in Claremont, CA.

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