Ideological Asymmetries and the Essence of Political Psychology

By John T. Jost. 2017

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Psychological Features of Extreme Political Ideologies (2019, background): “Indeed, the majority of studies indicating a right-wing shift under conditions of uncertainty were conducted in Western countries where the political currents that combine radicalism with nationalism happen to be right wing (e.g., the United States, several European Union, or EU, member states; Jost”
The marketplace of ideology: “Elective affinities” in political psychology and their implications for consumer behavior (2017, background): “on the other hand, exhibit more cognitive and perceptual rigidity as well as dogmatism and score higher on personal needs for order, structure, and closure (Jost, 2017).”
The psychological roots of intellectual humility: The role of intelligence and cognitive flexibility (2019, background): “, 2015), and that a cognitive style characterized by rigidity and intolerance of ambiguity is positively related to right-wing attitudes (for meta-analyses: Van Hiel et al., 2016; Jost, 2017).”
On the belief that beliefs should change according to evidence: Implications for conspiratorial, moral, paranormal, political, religious, and science beliefs (2019, background): “In addition, there is evidence that reliance on intuition is associated with traditional moral values (Pennycook, Cheyne, Barr, Koehler & Fugelsang, 2014; Royzman, Landy & Goodwin, 2014) and conservative political ideology (Jost, 2017) (but perhaps more-so with political apathy; see Pennycook & Rand”
They Might Be a Liar But They’re My Liar: Source Evaluation and the Prevalence of Misinformation (2019, background): “Some argue that these psychological differences are the reason that the rejection of well-established scientific propositions are mainly found on the political right (Jost, 2017; Lewandowsky & Oberauer, 2016).”
Identifying the most important predictors of support for climate policy in the United States (2020, background): “This finding is consistent with previous research showing that conservatives more strongly value conformity and in-group loyalty than do liberals (Caprara et al., 2006; Graham et al., 2009; Piurko et al., 2011; Jost, 2017; Jost et al., 2018).”
Functional Fear Predicts Public Health Compliance in the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, background): “Politically Driven Responses to the Pandemic In spite of recent reviews of the political psychological literature advocating for the presence of behavioral asymmetries between ideological groups (see, e.g., Jost 2017), we found no such evidence in our data.”
Identity concerns drive belief: The impact of partisan identity on the belief and dissemination of true and false news (2018, background): “…documented the existence of an ideological asymmetry in epistemic motives: conservatives consistently show higher levels of dogmatism, rigidity, intolerance of ambiguity, and needs for cognitive closure, structure, and order, as compared to liberals (Jost, 2017; Jost et al., 2003, 2017).”
Working While Liberal/Conservative: A Review of Political Ideology in Organizations (2020, background): “As shown in Figure 1, some political psychologists have pointed to latent underlying needs and motives manifesting as political beliefs and values (Jost, 2017); others have considered the identity and affiliation perspectives, which focus on the socializing influences of political elites who shape…”
Lazy, not biased: Susceptibility to partisan fake news is better explained by lack of reasoning than by motivated reasoning. (2019, unknown): “This occurs despite research indicating that political conservatives in the US tend to be more cognitively rigid, dogmatic, and less tolerant of ambiguity than liberals (Jost, 2017).”
Political Ideology Predicts Perceptions of the Threat of COVID-19 (and Susceptibility to Fake News About It) (2020, background): “We also predicted that conservatism would be negatively correlated with scores on the cognitive reflection (Hypothesis 7; Jost, 2017) and COVID19 knowledge measures (Hypothesis 8).”
Political Attitudes and the Processing of Misinformation Corrections (2018, background): “differences underlie biases in information processing (Feather, 1979; Jost, 2017; Jost, Glaser, Kruglanski, & Sulloway, 2003; Mooney, 2012; Thórisdóttir & Jost, 2011).”
Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality (2019, background): “As anticipated based on past work in political cognition (18, 19), we did observe meaningful differences in trust ratings based on participants ’ political partisanship.”