New social psychology research finds conservatives’ beliefs that immigrants aren’t supporting the American system enough explains their bias against immigrants and supports a new “Perceived System Justification Deficit Model of Prejudice”.

Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38347-8

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Political attitudes are pretty stable over shorter periods, but some people do change. Who is more stable?

Turner-Zwinkels found ideological identity was associated with stability (US & NL); party identity was only relevant in NL

https://osf.io/et73p

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Good news! When given unambiguous information, partisans can agree on the facts

Bad news! They attribute responsibility to whatever partisan group makes them look good and are resistant to persuasive arguments to the contrary

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajps.12432

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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

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Americans underestimate the diversity of each party's attitudes and this is related to partisan animosity

https://osf.io/spm5x/

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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

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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

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Americans share fewer false headlines (and more discerning of true versus false headlines) when the headlines come with 1-to-5 ⭐️ trustworthiness ratings

Next step, star ratings for academic journals and Twitter accounts

https://www.tsjournal.org/index.php/jots/article/view/100

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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

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Survey data shows that empathic concern ⏫ affective polarization and perspective-taking ⏬ it

In an experiment, perspective-taking reduced ingroup bias

https://psyarxiv.com/k5tgy/

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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

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Avoid using the cross-lagged panel model (@richlucas)

- It implies patterns of stability that do not match real patterns of stability
- Other models (RI-CLPM, dynamic panel model) better match assumptions
- It is easy to find spurious cross-lagged effects

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25152459231158378

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Rate proposals for contributions to a special issue of Political Psychology. "Your responses will help determine which proposals are included in the special issue."

https://www.next-gen-ideas.com/expert

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Left-Wing Authoritarianism

“Similar to right-wing authoritarianism, left-wing authoritarianism entails hostility towards ‘different’ others, a willingness to wield in-group authority to coerce behaviour, cognitive rigidity, aggression and punitiveness towards out-groups, a focus on status hierarchies and moral absolutism.”

https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00161-4

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New study finds intellectual humility is positively associated with a more liberal political orientation.

Does high intellectual humility move people towards a more liberal ideology, does a more liberal ideology foster humility, or both?

Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/qg52e/

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New study finds intellectual humility is positively associated with a more liberal political orientation.

Does high intellectual humility move people towards a more liberal ideology, does a more liberal ideology fosters humility, or both?

Preprint: https://psyarxiv.com/qg52e/

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New study finds that political collectives (e.g., Republicans) that experience a threat from an outgroup (e.g., losing an election) change their collective network structure to consolidate behind a few key members.

Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-28569-1

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There is a nice book: Political Psychology: Key Readings

https://www.routledge.com/Political-Psychology-Key-Readings/Jost-Sidanius/p/book/9781841690704

I'm curious what the political psychologists of Mastodon would put in such a book?

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Reducing Political Dehumanization:

“Across four studies in two countries, we show that journalists, and citizens on social media sites, can share facts about contentious political issues (gun and climate policy), while simultaneously increasing tolerance and reducing dehumanization of political opponents.”

Open access: https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12875

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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

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