Are Conservatives Really More Simple-Minded than Liberals? The Domain Specificity of Complex Thinking

By L. Conway, L. J. Gornick, S. Houck, Chris Anderson, J. Stockert, Diana Sessoms, K. Mccue. 2016

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Ideological Asymmetries and the Essence of Political Psychology (2017, methodology): “6) Aren’t liberals just as biased as conservatives when it comes to motivated social cognition (Conway et al., 2016; Crawford, 2012; Kahan, 2016), and just as prejudiced, too (Brandt, Reyna, Chambers, Crawford, & Wetherell, 2014; Chambers, Schlenker, & Collisson, 2013)?”
Extreme Political Beliefs Predict Dogmatic Intolerance (2017, result): “In that same study, however, no such quadratic relationship occurred on dogmatism; instead, results revealed the political right to be more dogmatic than the political left (see also Kemmelmeier, 2007; but see Conway et al., 2015).”
Liberals and conservatives are similarly motivated to avoid exposure to one another's opinions (2017, result): “Other studies found that, at a basic cognitive/emotional level, and counter to what some previous studies had suggested, conservatives and liberals may be similarly simple-minded (Conway et al., 2015; Gruenfeld, 1995), closed to new experiences (Brandt, Chambers, Crawford, Wetherell, & Reyna, 2015),”