A talk by Nancy Mimeles Carey, author of “How story, God, and Your Lying Brain Turn Chaos into Order”

With the midterms a few weeks away, Belfast writer Nancy Mimeles Carey, will offer a talk titled, “Your Lying Brain and the Biology of Voting.”

In the talk, Carey will explain how our fear of chaos and our need for stability influence whom we choose at the ballot box. She will address the question “Do conservatives and liberals differ psychologically and biologically?”

Carey’s presentation will be based in part on her interdisciplinary book, How Story, God, and Your Lying Brain Turn Chaos into Order, which ties together such diverse fields as cognitive science, neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, the anthropology of religion, linguistics, and fairy tales.