It can seem like an almost childish mistake, but a surprising number of adults confuse left from right and scientists are only just starting to understand why.

For example, US right-wingers today tend to be anti-abortion, but that isn't true of most of their European counterparts, and wasn't necessarily true of their own predecessors in earlier eras of ...

The two sides of your brain may look alike, but there’s a big difference in how they process information. Here’s what left brain versus right brain means for you.

NA. There is a common perception that right-wingers are more likely to believe conspiracy theories than people on the left. But a large-scale new study authored by political scientists Adam Enders ...

"Even in the last 50 to 100 years, it was not always clear. For example, which party was the left party, The Progressive Party, the party more eager for change or for bigger government," Hunt said.