Threat causes liberals to think like conservatives |
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Authors: | Paul R Nail April E Drinkwater Anthony W Thompson |
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Institution: | a University of Central Arkansas, 201 Donaghoy, Conway, AR 72035, United States b York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 |
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Abstract: | In Study 1, politically liberal college students’ in-group favoritism increased after a system-injustice threat, becoming as pronounced as that of conservatives. Studies 2 and 3 conceptually replicated these results with low preference for consistency Cialdini, R. B., Trost, M. R., & Newsom, J. T. (1995). Preference for consistency: The development of a valid measure and the discovery of surprising behavioral implications. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 69, 318-328.] as a dispositional measure of liberalism. In Study 2, following a mortality salience threat, dispositionally liberal students showed as much conviction in their attitudes toward capital punishment and abortion as dispositional conservatives did. In Study 3, after a mortality salience threat, liberal students became as staunchly unsupportive of homosexuals as conservatives were. The findings that political and dispositional liberals become more politically and psychologically conservative after threats provide convergent experimental support for the Jost, J. T., Glaser, J., Kruglanski, A. W., & Sulloway, F. J. (2003). Political conservatism as motivated social cognition. Psychological Bulletin, 129 339-375.] contention that conservatism is a basic form of motivated social cognition. |
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Keywords: | Liberals Conservatives Political orientation Psychological defenses Motivated social cognition Preference for consistency |
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