New social psychology research finds conservatives’ beliefs that immigrants aren’t supporting the American system enough explains their bias against immigrants and supports a new “Perceived System Justification Deficit Model of Prejudice”.
Open access: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38347-8
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Political attitudes are pretty stable over shorter periods, but some people do change. Who is more stable?
Turner-Zwinkels found ideological identity was associated with stability (US & NL); party identity was only relevant in NL
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Good news! When given unambiguous information, partisans can agree on the facts
Bad news! They attribute responsibility to whatever partisan group makes them look good and are resistant to persuasive arguments to the contrary
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajps.12432
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The effects of slavery live on:
Black families who were enslaved until the Civil War have
🔽education today
🔽income today
🔽wealth today
Especially in Jim Crow states
https://lukasalthoff.github.io/jmp/althoff_jmp.pdf
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The Great Migration....
🔼support for the Democratic Party
🔼Congress members’ promotion of civil rights legislation
🔼pro-civil rights activism outside the US South
https://academic.oup.com/restud/article-abstract/90/1/165/6581725
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The salience of infectious disease (COVID) was not associated with increased xenophobia in the Netherlands
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