Threat causes liberals to think like conservatives

By Paul R. Nail, Ian M McGregor, April E. Drinkwater, G. M. Steele, Anthony W. Thompson. 2009

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The role of cognitive resources in determining our moral intuitions: Are we all liberals at heart?☆ (2011, background): “But even liberals display a higher degree of binding activation when placed in threatening situations (Nail et al., 2009).”
Motivated Closed-Mindedness Mediates the Effect of Threat on Political Conservatism (2011, methodology): “Although individual differences in the perception of a dangerous world have consistently been linked to right-wing conservatism (Altemeyer, 1998), the conclusion cannot be drawn from this study alone that threat leads people to endorse politically conservative opinions and identifications more stron”
Death Goes to the Polls: A Meta-Analysis of Mortality Salience Effects on Political Attitudes* (2013, background): “For example, one study assessed participants’ support for same-sex partner benefits (Nail et al., 2009), one used nine items assessing level of support for the 2009 proposed health care reforms (Vail, Arndt, & Pope, 2011), and another measured support for national military force by having…”
Getting Liberals and Conservatives to Go Green: Political Ideology and Congruent Appeals (2013, methodology): “Political ideology was assessed using a single-item scale used in past research (Nail et al. 2009), with endpoints of 0 for liberals and 100 for conservatives.”