Using data from a national probability sample of heterosexual U.S. adults (N02,281), the present study describes the distribution and correlates of men’s and women’s attitudes toward transgender people. Feeling thermometer ratings of transgender people were strongly correlated with attitudes toward gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals, but were significantly less favorable. Attitudes toward transge...

We examine whether individual differences in needs for security and certainty predict conservative (vs. liberal) position on both cultural and economic political issues and whether these effects are conditional on nation-level characteristics and individual-level political engagement. Analyses with cross-national data from 51 nations reveal that valuing conformity, security, and tradition over ...

From Authoritarianism to People Power in the Middle East and North Africa Implications for Economic Inclusion and Equity Eva Bellin The past 14 months have constituted a period of enormous political excitement in the Middle East and North Africa. Starting in December 2010, this region, long ranked as the most persistently authoritarian in the world and characterized by years of political stasis...

We examined the degree to which cognitive style, cultural worldview, conspiracy ideation, and religious and political demographic variables correspond to agreement with scientific claims across four domains. Participants rated their level of agreement with scientific statements in four domains (evolution, GMOs, vaccinations, climate change) along with open-ended questions to investigate partici...

Polarizing discussions on political and social issues are common in mass and user-generated media. However, computer-based understanding of ideological discourse has been considered too difficult to undertake. In this paper we propose a statistical model for ideology discourse. By ideology we mean “a set of general beliefs socially shared by a group of people.” For example, Democratic and Repub...