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
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Prediction errors predict belief change for both Republicans and Democrats, although the effect is stronger for Democrats in one study
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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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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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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
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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
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An intriguing study concluded that political conservatives exhibited enhanced self-control using the Stroop task [Clarkson et al.: The self-control consequences of political ideology. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A, 112(27): 8250β8253 (2015)]. We preregistered our plans to re-examine this finding using a larger, representative, incentivized, and ideologically balanced sample (nβ=β476). Across a variety of specifications, we report a consistent null effect of ideology on Stroop response latencies and the Stroop interference effect. These findings suggest that the previously reported result may not generalize. We conclude that there is no causal relationship between political ideology and self-control, as measured by the Stroop task.
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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π¨ New publication in Governance
Political legitmacy is central to political research, but how can it be measured? π‘οΈ π€
We develop a new six-item scale and apply this on a large and diverse group of citizens, politicians, civil servants and civil society actors
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/gove.12800?campaign=wolearlyview
With Tessa Haesevoets, Arne_Roets KristofSteyvers @bramverschuere
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
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