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View article: Political Ideology as Historically Situated Motivated Social Cognition: Understanding Right‐Wing Conservatism in Brazil
Political Ideology as Historically Situated Motivated Social Cognition: Understanding Right‐Wing Conservatism in Brazil Open
Right‐wing conservatism in Brazil has deep historical roots, shaped by the social dominance of colonialism, ideological justification of the slave system, and a series of authoritarian regimes. Under the presidency of Jair Bolsonaro, Brazi…
View article: Macro-Economic Inequality and National Stereotypes in 45 Non-Western Countries
Macro-Economic Inequality and National Stereotypes in 45 Non-Western Countries Open
The assumption that people favor ingroups and disfavor outgroups is based largely on theory and research from Western countries. However, groups subjected to economic exploitation and inequality might come to favor more advantaged outgroup…
View article: The Mismeasure of Culture: Why Measurement Invariance Is Rarely Appropriate for Comparative Research in Psychology
The Mismeasure of Culture: Why Measurement Invariance Is Rarely Appropriate for Comparative Research in Psychology Open
Despite growing recognition of the need for cross-national or cross-cultural validation of measures in social psychological research, a tension persists between proponents of measurement invariance and practitioners frustrated with stringe…
View article: The mismeasure of culture: Why measurement invariance is rarely appropriate for comparative research in psychology
The mismeasure of culture: Why measurement invariance is rarely appropriate for comparative research in psychology Open
Despite growing recognition of the need for cross-national or cross-cultural validation of measures in social psychological research, tension persists between proponents of measurement invariance and practitioners frustrated with stringent…
View article: Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity
Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity Open
Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n = 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments designed by academics and practitioners to reduce Americans' parti…
View article: Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity
Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity Open
Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy ( n = 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments designed by academics and practitioners to reduce Americans’ part…
View article: Effects of system-sanctioned framing on climate awareness and environmental action in the United States and beyond
Effects of system-sanctioned framing on climate awareness and environmental action in the United States and beyond Open
Despite growing scientific alarm about anthropogenic climate change, the world is not on track to solve the crisis. Inaction may be partially explained by skepticism about climate change and resistance to proenvironmental policies from peo…
View article: Liberal-conservative asymmetries in anti-democratic tendencies are partly explained by psychological differences in a nationally representative U.S. sample
Liberal-conservative asymmetries in anti-democratic tendencies are partly explained by psychological differences in a nationally representative U.S. sample Open
Based on theory and research in political psychology, we hypothesized that liberal-conservative differences in right-wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and political system justification would contribute to asymmetries in…
View article: A social prospect theory of intergroup relations explains the occurrence of incremental progressive social change
A social prospect theory of intergroup relations explains the occurrence of incremental progressive social change Open
Throughout modernity, incremental progress has been a common pattern of social change. We propose a novel social prospect theory of intergroup relations that can explain the prevalence of this pattern by distinguishing between two types of…
View article: The mismeasure of culture: Why measurement invariance is rarely appropriate for comparative research in psychology
The mismeasure of culture: Why measurement invariance is rarely appropriate for comparative research in psychology Open
Despite growing recognition of the need for cross-national or cross-cultural validation of measures in social psychological research, tension persists between proponents of measurement invariance and practitioners frustrated with stringent…
View article: The mismeasure of culture: When measurement invariance requirements hinder social-psychological research
The mismeasure of culture: When measurement invariance requirements hinder social-psychological research Open
This article critically assesses the role of measurement invariance techniques in psychology and cross-national research. Despite growing awareness of the need for cross-cultural equivalence in social psychological studies, tension exists …
View article: Grand challenge: social psychology without hubris
Grand challenge: social psychology without hubris Open
In this editorial, the Founding Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Social Psychology expresses several ideas about the past, present, and possible future of social psychology, seeking to explain we need social psychology, why we need a new…
View article: Heterosexist system justification: Identity and ideology explain variability in sexual minorities’ opposition to homophobia and support for LGBTQ+ rights
Heterosexist system justification: Identity and ideology explain variability in sexual minorities’ opposition to homophobia and support for LGBTQ+ rights Open
We hypothesized that because politically conservative ideology legitimizes the status quo—including heteronormative institutions and arrangements—it should be negatively associated with in-group identification, opposition to homophobia, an…
View article: Ideological asymmetries in online hostility, intimidation, obscenity, and prejudice
Ideological asymmetries in online hostility, intimidation, obscenity, and prejudice Open
To investigate ideological symmetries and asymmetries in the expression of online prejudice, we used machine-learning methods to estimate the prevalence of extreme hostility in a large dataset of Twitter messages harvested in 2016. We anal…
View article: A critical feminist system justification analysis of climate obstructionism on the part of conservative white men
A critical feminist system justification analysis of climate obstructionism on the part of conservative white men Open
In the U.S. and other Western nations, one demographic group is most likely to downplay anthropogenic climate change and its consequences, to embrace the “discourse of delay,” and to resist pro‐environmental policies: conservative white me…
View article: How Neoliberal are You? Development and Validation of the Neoliberal Orientation Questionnaire
How Neoliberal are You? Development and Validation of the Neoliberal Orientation Questionnaire Open
We created a novel instrument to assess individual orientations toward the neoliberal capitalist system, the Neoliberal Orientation Questionnaire (NOQ), which is comprised of four dimensions: competitiveness, individual self-regulation, re…
View article: Expectations about system justification predict the ideological gap in attitudes towards immigrants
Expectations about system justification predict the ideological gap in attitudes towards immigrants Open
In the U.S. political conservatives hold less favorable attitudes than liberals about immigration and immigrant groups. We hypothesized that one reason for this ideological gap is that conservatives are more likely to believe that immigran…
View article: Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity
Megastudy testing 25 treatments to reduce antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity Open
Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten the health of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy (n = 32,059 participants) testing 25 treatments designed by academics and practitioners to reduce Americans’ parti…
View article: Does System Justification Promote Establishment Voting? Mainstream Politics in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom
Does System Justification Promote Establishment Voting? Mainstream Politics in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom Open
Throughout Europe and North America, mainstream political parties have ceded electoral support to antiestablishment parties from the far left and far right. We investigate the hypothesis that individual differences in system justification—…
View article: Replication Data for: Rumors in Retweet: Ideological Asymmetry in the Failure to Correct Misinformation
Replication Data for: Rumors in Retweet: Ideological Asymmetry in the Failure to Correct Misinformation Open
We used supervised machine-learning techniques to examine ideological asymmetries in online rumor transmission. Although liberals were more likely than conservatives to communicate in general about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings (Study …
View article: Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Antipathy Toward Immigrants and Sexual Minorities in the Early Days of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy
Right-Wing Authoritarianism and Antipathy Toward Immigrants and Sexual Minorities in the Early Days of the Coronavirus Pandemic in Italy Open
Theory and research in social, evolutionary, and political psychology indicates that subjective feelings of threat and exposure to objectively threatening circumstances—including pandemic diseases—may contribute to increased affinities for…
View article: Envisioning Change: An Empirical Test of the Social Psychological Model of Utopian Thinking and Collective Action
Envisioning Change: An Empirical Test of the Social Psychological Model of Utopian Thinking and Collective Action Open
This article provides the first empirical evidence of the theoretical model by Badaan et al. (2020) that proposes social psychological mechanisms whereby utopian thinking, which activates the social imagination, could enhance collective ac…
View article: Is There an Ideological Asymmetry in the Incumbency Effect? Evidence From U.S. Congressional Elections
Is There an Ideological Asymmetry in the Incumbency Effect? Evidence From U.S. Congressional Elections Open
The electoral advantage that incumbent legislators enjoy over challengers in the U.S. Congress has been investigated extensively in political science. Very few studies, however, have considered the role of individual differences when it co…
View article: Replication Data for: Is There an Ideological Asymmetry in the Incumbency Effect? Evidence from U.S. Congressional Elections
Replication Data for: Is There an Ideological Asymmetry in the Incumbency Effect? Evidence from U.S. Congressional Elections Open
Replication code for all the results included in the main article and in the online appendix. All data sets are publicly available from the Congressional Cooperative Election Study website: https://cces.gov.harvard.edu/.
View article: The ideological basis of antiscientific attitudes: Effects of authoritarianism, conservatism, religiosity, social dominance, and system justification
The ideological basis of antiscientific attitudes: Effects of authoritarianism, conservatism, religiosity, social dominance, and system justification Open
Serious concerns about public distrust of scientific experts and the spread of misinformation are growing in the US and elsewhere. To gauge ideological and psychological variability in attitudes toward science, we conducted an extensive an…
View article: The neural basis of ideological differences in race categorization
The neural basis of ideological differences in race categorization Open
Multiracial individuals are often categorized as members of their ‘socially subordinate’ racial group—a form of social discrimination termed hypodescent—with political conservatives more likely than liberals to show this bias. Although hyp…
View article: Toward a neuropsychology of political orientation: exploring ideology in patients with frontal and midbrain lesions
Toward a neuropsychology of political orientation: exploring ideology in patients with frontal and midbrain lesions Open
How do people form their political beliefs? In an effort to address this question, we adopt a neuropsychological approach. In a natural experiment, we explored links between neuroanatomy and ideological preferences in two samples of brain …
View article: At whose expense? System justification and the appreciation of stereotypical humor targeting high- versus low-status groups
At whose expense? System justification and the appreciation of stereotypical humor targeting high- versus low-status groups Open
Many popular comedians tell complicated jokes that involve multiple levels of interpretation. The same joke may be perceived as criticizing or reinforcing the societal status quo, depending on perceivers’ assumptions about the target of th…