Neoteric wrote:

Emory University psychologist Drew Westen ...

I want the paper.

A recent article by NYT columnist John Tierney, Smells Like Team Spirit, refers to Westen's latest work in the context of sports fans. The researcher, Drew Westen, is at Emory University in Atlanta.

At the site for the Laboratory of Personality and Psychopathology, you can find the paper, which is entitled, "The neural basis of motivated reasoning: An fMRI study of emotional constraints on political judgment during the U.S. Presidential election of 2004." This manuscript is currently in press. The site states:

If you would like to view one of the manuscripts currently in press, please email us for a password to download it, at psychlab@emory.edu.

It's not clear from other web discussions whether the authors are providing access to this paper just yet; it is still under revision.

Emory issued a press release about the work.

RE: Study Ties Political Leanings to Hidden Biases