[HTML][HTML] Cognitive–motivational mechanisms of political polarization in social-communicative contexts

JT Jost, DS Baldassarri, JN Druckman - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

The psychosocial effects of economic inequality depend on its perception

GB Willis, E García-Sánchez… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Economic inequality might influence subjective well-being through psychological processes
such as status competition and social distance. However, evidence for this claim is mixed. In …

Political polarization on COVID-19 pandemic response in the United States

J Kerr, C Panagopoulos, S Van Der Linden - Personality and individual …, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite calls for political consensus, there is growing evidence that the public response to
the COVID-19 pandemic has been politicized in the US. We examined the extent to which …

[HTML][HTML] Benevolent and hostile sexism in a shifting global context

M Barreto, DM Doyle - Nature reviews psychology, 2023 - nature.com
The theory of and research on ambivalent sexism—which encompasses both attitudes that
are overtly negative (hostile sexism) and those that seem subjectively positive but are …

Neoliberalism can reduce well‐being by promoting a sense of social disconnection, competition, and loneliness

JC Becker, L Hartwich… - British Journal of Social …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Neoliberalism has become the dominant ideology in many parts of the world. Yet there is
little empirical research on its psychological impact. On the basis of a social identity …

[HTML][HTML] Social and moral psychology of COVID-19 across 69 countries

F Azevedo, T Pavlović, GG Rêgo, FC Ay, B Gjoneska… - Scientific data, 2023 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all domains of human life, including the economic
and social fabric of societies. One of the central strategies for managing public health …

Uses and abuses of ideology in political psychology

NP Kalmoe - Political Psychology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ideology is a central construct in political psychology. Even so, the field's strong claims about
an ideological public rarely engage evidence of enormous individual differences: a minority …

Worldview conflict and prejudice

MJ Brandt, JT Crawford - Advances in experimental social psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
People are motivated to protect their worldviews. One way to protect one's worldviews is
through prejudice toward worldview-dissimilar groups and individuals. The traditional …

The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach

L Zmigrod, IW Eisenberg, PG Bissett… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Although human existence is enveloped by ideologies, remarkably little is understood about
the relationships between ideological attitudes and psychological traits. Even less is known …

System justification motivation as a source of backlash against equality‐promoting policies—and what to do about it

U Liaquat, JT Jost, E Balcetis - Social Issues and Policy …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
One of the most pressing tasks facing policymakers in the 21st century is reducing stark
group‐based inequalities that have developed within many societies because of centuries of …