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
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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!
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Tutorial for selecting the number and labels of topics in topic modeling: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25152459231160105
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The salience of infectious disease (COVID) was not associated with increased xenophobia in the Netherlands
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Loneliness is more painful when we are with other people than when they are alone.
Social contact does not necessarily help people cope with loneliness.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10902-023-00661-3
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People are often advised to engage in social contact to cope with the experience of loneliness and improve well-being. But are the moments of loneliness actually more bearable when spent in other people’s company? In this research, we proposed and tested two conflicting theoretical accounts regarding the role of social contact: social contact is associated with a stronger (the amplifying account) or with a weaker (the buffering account) negative effect of loneliness on psychological well-being. Analyses of three datasets collected using ecological momentary assessments (Nindividuals = 3,035) revealed that the negative association between loneliness and well-being was stronger when participants were with others than alone, consistent with the amplifying account. Further, when participants experienced high levels of loneliness, being with others was associated with the same or with even a lower level of well-being than being alone. These findings suggest that simply spending time with others (vs. alone) is not associated with a reduced burden of loneliness and may even backfire.
Intellectual humility is associated with less affective polarization and, among conservatives, less polarized attitudes
Perhaps driven by more political heterophily among the humble
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pops.12890
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When it comes to climate change, perceived inequality positively predicts people’s support for structural (vs. individual-level behavior) change policies
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/19485506231169328
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Liberals and conservative use similar moral words, but they attach different meanings to those words
Maybe seems obvious, but suggests that moral politics is a competition over *meaning* and not promoting specific values
It also has implications for how we think about and use (or don't use) dictionary methods for understanding morality in text and speech.
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It's ok if you're different from your partner
Similarity in personality does not predict life or relationship satisfaction of partners.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656623000405
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Political arguments are the most persuasive when written...
by women
by liberals
by the intellectually humble
by the low party identifiers
for the in-party
were longer
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgad143/7140567
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