28.05.2014 |
written by Jarret Crawford
Political ideology is more than just “liberal” and “conservative”
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political psychology / ideology / need for cognitive closure / policy attitudes / prejudice / discrimination
Political ideology is more than just “liberal” and “conservative”
In this blog post, I describe new evidence that thinking about political ideology on a single liberal/left to conservative/right spectrum masks important nuances in the origins of political ideologies and in the way that people apply those ideologies to important judgments, including those of other people (i.e., prejudice). / more