Leftist and rightists both updated their beliefs on political and non-political issues in the face of counter-evidence to the same degree.

Individual differences in threat sensitivity also did not play a role.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejsp.2965

@socialpsych @politicalscience #research #ideology #psych #newpsychresearch #socpsych #politics

People like political ingroups more than outgroups around the world

This gap is widened when people share belief system *structure* and narrowed when they share belief system *content*

Felicity Turner-Zwinkels, Jochem van Noord, Rebekka Kesberg and many more!

https://osf.io/he2ay

#newresearch #politics #polarization #polisci #sociology #socPsych #newpsychresearch @socialpsych @politicalscience @orgbehavior

Tutorial for selecting the number and labels of topics in topic modeling: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25152459231160105

#researchmethods #research #topicmodeling #datascience #psych #newpsychresearch #socpsych #personaliy #methods

When it comes to climate change, perceived inequality positively predicts people’s support for structural (vs. individual-level behavior) change policies

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/19485506231169328

#socpsych #polpsych #newpaper #research #climate #climatechange #climateaction #inequality #climateemergency #newpsychresearch

Liberals and conservative use similar moral words, but they attach different meanings to those words

Maybe seems obvious, but suggests that moral politics is a competition over *meaning* and not promoting specific values

It also has implications for how we think about and use (or don't use) dictionary methods for understanding morality in text and speech.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/abs/lexical-ambiguity-in-political-rhetoric-why-morality-doesnt-fit-in-a-bag-of-words/BF369893D8B6B6FDF8292366157D84C1

#polisci #newresearch #newpaper #morality #socpsych #newpsychresearch @socialpsych @politicalscience #textasdata

It's ok if you're different from your partner

Similarity in personality does not predict life or relationship satisfaction of partners.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656623000405

#newpaper #personality #romance #newpsychresearch #relationships #happiness

Political arguments are the most persuasive when written...

by women
by liberals
by the intellectually humble
by the low party identifiers
for the in-party
were longer

https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad143/7140567

#NewPsychResearch #newpaper #politics #polisci #socpsych @socialpsych @politicalscience

Darker skin tone predicted more perceived discrimination and more depressive symptoms in a longitudinal study of Indigenous people in Chile

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ejsp.2955

#NewPsychResearch #newpaper #socpsych #polpsych #research #depression #discrimination #Chile @socialpsych

Is affective polarization party specific, or do people make distinctions between political camps in multi-party systems?

New work shows camps matter: "affect is most polarized between Left and Right camps, and between the Radical Right and other camps"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379423000367

#NewPsychResearch #polisci #socpsych #polpsych #research #polarization #radicalright #newpaper @socialpsych @politicalscience

Americans estimate, often inaccurately, that society has made linear progress on social issues

This belief is correlated with the belief that people are getting more politically liberal and that government regulation is increasing over time

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01461672231158843

#NewPsychResearch #PolPsych #SocPsych #MoralPsych #psychology #politicalscience @socialpsych @orgbehavior @politicalscience

People whose ancestors have a tighter kinship structure tend to have more right-wing cultural attitudes

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/british-journal-of-political-science/article/ancestral-kinship-and-the-origins-of-ideology/1A05C34B5B07A4664A8909E5663414BF

#SocPsych #PolPsych #NewPsychResearch @socialpsych @politicalscience @orgbehavior

A RCT designed to affect conscientiousness-related skills with low-skilled employed workers in Senegal increased wages 9months post intervention

https://documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099355203272341682/pdf/IDU00a4b67200c3a70461a0b91b09fd8c4c97768.pdf

#Personality #SocPsych #NewPsychResearch #RCT @socialpsych @orgbehavior

The belief that men are better suited emotionally for politics than women predicts support for Trump over Clinton, particularly among White voters.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-018-9446-8

#NewPsychResearch #SocPsych #PolPsych #PoliSci @socialpsych

Greedier people have...

⬆️ household income
⬆️ sexual partners,
⬇️ children,
⬇️ lasting romantic relationships
⬇️ lower well-being

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01461672221140355

#NewPsychResearch #SocPsych #Greed #Happiness @socialpsych

A new paper suggests that the reason poverty is related to support for authoritarianism is because of feelings of shame/exclusion experienced when in poverty

Although shame does seem to be a robust predictor, as far as I can tell, they never find that poverty is associated with authoritarianism in their own data?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/01461672221141509

#NewPsychResearch #SocPsych #PolPsych #PoliSci @socialpsych @politicalscience

The cross-lagged panel model "is very likely to find spurious cross-lagged effects when they don’t exist, while also underestimating them when they do." ...

"Given these concerns, it would seem prudent to abandon the use of the CLPM for causal analysis of longitudinal data"

by @richlucas

https://files.osf.io/v1/resources/pkec7/providers/osfstorage/620a48df237c8c073475a8f7

#NewPsychResearch @socialpsych

A meta analysis linking religiosity with life satisfaction.

But that looks a lot like publication bias to me

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-022-00558-7

#NewPsychResearch #SocPsych @socialpsych #happiness #religion

Opponents of trans-inclusive policies in the US and UK claim that concerns about male violence are the primary reason for their opposition, but attitudes toward transgender people more strongly predict policy views

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01461672221137201

#NewPsychResearch #PoliSci #SocPsych #Moral Psych #PolPsych @politicalscience @socialpsych

Disgust is associated with harsher moral judgments (r = .2ish), but the association is stronger for...

-sexual disgust (~.25) vs pathogen disgust (~.18)

-sanctity moral judgments (~.3) vs other domains (~.2 or less) of moral judgments

(open) https://psyarxiv.com/scvr2/
🔒 https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17540739221114643

#NewPsychResearch #SocPsych #MoralPsych @socialpsych

People believe politically aligned terrorism is motivated less by the internal characteristics of the terrorists (e.g., hate, evil) and more by external factors (e.g., injustice, oppression)

https://academic.oup.com/sf/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/sf/soac132/6889440

#NewPsychResearch #SocPsych #PolPsych #PoliSci