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Balance Theory Strikes Again!
"exposure to sexually conservative ethnic out-groups can provoke an instrumental increase in LGBT+ inclusion, particularly among those hostile toward immigration."
@politicalscience @socialpsych #research #immigration #lgbtq #newpaper #psychology
News stories that explain the goals & background of a protest and that humanize a person whose death sparked a protest caused audiences to understand the protest and social movement better
On perceived credibility measures, Republican backlash
Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hate serve as substitutes for one another in US far right groups.
In these groups, hate remains high, but the target shifts in both hateful rhetoric and hate crimes.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11109-023-09892-9
The 2016 presidential campaign saw high levels of anti-Muslim online and offline hate. But, by the August 2017 ‘Unite the Right’ rally, anti-Muslim discourse and hate crimes had partly receded, despite the group remaining politically salient and despite a sharp increase in White ‘nationalist’ activity targeting another religious minority, Jews. Was this by chance? Because we might expect White nationalist activity to increase hate against all groups, the counter-intuitive decline in anti-Muslim hate could have been coincidental. We argue instead that those shifts in animus toward Muslims and Jews should be considered in tandem, and that these over-time patterns of hate reflected different manifestations of elevated and constant religious ethnocentrism, especially among far-right extremists. Using data on fringe and mainstream social media sites and hate crime databases, we present two core sets of findings. First, increased anti-Jewish speech was partly driven by the same far-right communities and extremists who previously promoted anti-Muslim speech. Moreover, combined anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish rhetoric in fringe far-right social media over this period was sustained at a high and largely constant level, seeing shifts primarily in the targets of hate speech. Second, similar patterns manifest offline: hate crimes were more strongly associated with which group was targeted by hate speech, but not the overall prevalence of hate speech. Together, this study demonstrates a robust link between the dislike toward Muslims and dislike toward Jews, and how fringe groups organize the dissemination of hate.
Political independents are more likely to vote *against* a candidate/party than *for* a candidate/party, agreed more with negatively-framed political appeals...and this also happens on non-political topics! 🇺🇸
#political #science #psychology #research #newpaper #independence
Individual relative deprivation tended to go down across the lifespan, but group relative deprivation tended to go up from young-to-middle adulthood before declining across late adulthood 🇳🇿
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/01461672231195332
People share true or false news anticipating positive reactions from like-minded audiences and refrain from sharing to avoid upsetting politically dissimilar audiences
#newpaper #fakenews #psychology #polisci #politics @socialpsych @politicalscience
Inconsistent and very weak associations (at best) between childhood personality and general conservatism, social conservatism, and economic conservative.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jopy.12874#
@socialpsych @politicalscience #newpaper #personality #politics #research #psychology
System justification theory predicts that people who are disadvantaged will justify the system more than those who are advantaged
New paper by Rebekka Kesberg, Felicity Turner-Zwinkels & co find that this holds in about 1/4th of the population in 🇫🇷🇵🇱🇪🇸🇬🇧
These "justifiers" are in contrast to the "rejectors": About 1/3rd of the population shows the complete opposite effect, with advantaged people justifying the system more
New primer just dropped: An introduction to supervised ML for psychologists*
*I'm assuming it's also helpful for others too
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/25152459231162559
White backlash against ethnic diversification results in support for anti-immigration policies.
New paper finds that it also increases support for legal abortion among racially prejudiced Whites
https://www.marcelroman.com/pdfs/wps/abortion.pdf
#newpaper #politics #abortion #psychology @socialpsych @politicalscience