mjb, 10 months ago to Futurology

New accepted paper with Shree Vallabha and Felicity Turner-Zwinkels!

The onset of COVID-19 made people feel stressed and threatened, but did not cause much attitude change

The change that was found, wasn't predicted by dominant theories.

Lots of robustness checks & the conclusions hold

Full text: https://osf.io/ahtk6

#COVID19 #polisci #socpsych #research #causalinference @socialpsych @politicalscience

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mjb, 11 months ago to Futurology

Leftist and rightists both updated their beliefs on political and non-political issues in the face of counter-evidence to the same degree.

Individual differences in threat sensitivity also did not play a role.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ejsp.2965

@socialpsych @politicalscience #research #ideology #psych #newpsychresearch #socpsych #politics

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mjb, 1 year ago to politics

People like political ingroups more than outgroups around the world

This gap is widened when people share belief system structure and narrowed when they share belief system content

Felicity Turner-Zwinkels, Jochem van Noord, Rebekka Kesberg and many more!

https://osf.io/he2ay

#newresearch #politics #polarization #polisci #sociology #socPsych #newpsychresearch @socialpsych @politicalscience @orgbehavior

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mjb, 1 year ago to socialpsych

How do people vote when their ideology conflicts with their ethnocentrism?

For people with strong ideologies, the effect of ethnocentrism is minimal, but for people with weaker ideological commitments, ethnocentrism is key

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/21565503.2023.2207258

#polisci #race #vote #trump #socpsych #research #newpaper @politicalscience @socialpsych @sociology

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mjb, 1 year ago to socialpsych

Political ideology does not predict self-control in Stroop task performance (a failure to replicate a 2015 study)

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40881-023-00133-7

#StroopThereItIs #newresearch #stroop #cognition #socpsych #polisci #replication @socialpsych @politicalscience

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mjb, 1 year ago to random

Tutorial for selecting the number and labels of topics in topic modeling: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25152459231160105

#researchmethods #research #topicmodeling #datascience #psych #newpsychresearch #socpsych #personaliy #methods

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mjb, 1 year ago to socialpsych

What gets Native Americans politically and civically engaged?

4 studies with 11,000+ Native Americans finds that identifying as Native was associated with engaging in get-out-the-vote behaviors and intentions to engage in civic activities in the future

Effects likely do to the recognition of the omission of their group from society and perceive greater group discrimination

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09567976231165271

#newresearch #nativeamerican #polisci #psych #socpsych @socialpsych @politicalscience

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mjb, 1 year ago to politicalscience

Is affective polarization party specific, or do people make distinctions between political camps in multi-party systems?

New work shows camps matter: "affect is most polarized between Left and Right camps, and between the Radical Right and other camps"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261379423000367

#NewPsychResearch #polisci #socpsych #polpsych #research #polarization #radicalright #newpaper @socialpsych @politicalscience

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