New accepted paper with Shree Vallabha and Felicity Turner-Zwinkels!

The onset of COVID-19 made people feel stressed and threatened, but *did not cause much attitude change*

The change that was found, wasn't predicted by dominant theories.

Lots of robustness checks & the conclusions hold

Full text: https://osf.io/ahtk6

#COVID19 #polisci #socpsych #research #causalinference @socialpsych @politicalscience

Prediction errors predict belief change for both Republicans and Democrats, although the effect is stronger for Democrats in one study

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6216d7edf814e51673d8962f/t/621e76a31b7d863bc406027a/1646163619622/PsychSci.pdf

@socialpsych #research #politics #belief #change #ideology #socpsych #polisci

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

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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

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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How do people vote when their ideology conflicts with their ethnocentrism?

For people with strong ideologies, the effect of ethnocentrism is minimal, but for people with weaker ideological commitments, ethnocentrism is key

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21565503.2023.2207258

#polisci #race #vote #trump #socpsych #research #newpaper @politicalscience @socialpsych @sociology

Political ideology does not predict self-control in Stroop task performance (a failure to replicate a 2015 study)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40881-023-00133-7

#StroopThereItIs #newresearch #stroop #cognition #socpsych #polisci #replication @socialpsych @politicalscience

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

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🚨 New publication in Governance

Political legitmacy is central to political research, but how can it be measured? 🌡️ 🤔

We develop a new six-item scale and apply this on a large and diverse group of citizens, politicians, civil servants and civil society actors

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gove.12800?campaign=wolearlyview

With Tessa Haesevoets, Arne_Roets KristofSteyvers @bramverschuere

#polisci #psych #socpsych @socialpsych @politicalscience

What gets Native Americans politically and civically engaged?

4 studies with 11,000+ Native Americans finds that identifying as Native was associated with engaging in get-out-the-vote behaviors and intentions to engage in civic activities in the future

Effects likely do to the recognition of the omission of their group from society and perceive greater group discrimination

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976231165271

#newresearch #nativeamerican #polisci #psych #socpsych @socialpsych @politicalscience

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

#polisci #polpsych #polarization #responsibility #facts #factcheck #research #newresearch #politics #socpsych #goodnews

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

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 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

#research #socpsych #polpsych @socialpsych #factcheck #socialmedia #fakenews #newpaper

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

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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