Sociology and Political ScienceSocial PsychologyClinical PsychologyExperimental and Cognitive PsychologyPolitical Science and International RelationsPhilosophy
Dana R. Carney, John T. Jost, Samuel D. Gosling, Jeff Potter
Although skeptics continue to doubt that most people are “ideological,” evidence
suggests that meaningful left‐right differences do exist and that they may be
rooted in basic personality dispositions, that is, relatively stable individual
differences in psychological needs, motives, and orientations toward the world.
Seventy‐five years of theory and research on personality and political
orientatio... hiện toàn bộ
There has been a substantial increase in research on the determinants and
consequences of political ideology among political scientists and social
psychologists. In psychology, researchers have examined the effects of
personality and motivational factors on ideological orientations as well as
differences in moral reasoning and brain functioning between liberals and
conservatives. In political scie... hiện toàn bộ
Nationalism and patriotism can be thought of as consequences of national
identity that represent positive evaluations of one's own group but imply
different social goals. This paper investigates the ways in which these concepts
are related to attitudes toward minorities. The data analyzed were drawn from a
representative sample of residents of the former East and West Germany who
responded to item... hiện toàn bộ
This article examines the science‐of‐science‐communication measurement problem.
In its simplest form, the problem reflects the use of externally invalid
measures of the dynamics that generate cultural conflict over risk and other
policy‐relevant facts. But at a more fundamental level, the
science‐of‐science‐communication measurement problem inheres in the phenomena
being measured themselves. The “... hiện toàn bộ
One explanation for the dearth of women in elected office is that voters
stereotype candidates based on their gender. Research in this vein often assumes
that female candidates will be stereotyped similarly to women (e.g., as
compassionate) and measures stereotypes as such. We question this assumption,
proposing instead that female politicians constitute a subtype—a new
stereotypical category with... hiện toàn bộ
Exposure to derogatory language about immigrants and minority groups leads to
political radicalization and deteriorates intergroup relations. This article
addresses the psychological processes responsible for these effects as well as
those involved in hate‐speech proliferation in contemporary societies and
discusses the factors that constrain its growth. We propose that frequent
exposure to hate s... hiện toàn bộ
Left and right are viewed as social constructs that serve to orient and to bind
people to political choices over the last two centuries mostly within
established Western liberal democracies. Their contents and functions, however,
have not been invariant across polities but were largely shaped in accordance
with the distinctive characteristics of societies and of political systems in
which they ope... hiện toàn bộ