The present study investigated the relationship between cognitive development and political and religious ideology, and whether there are gender differences in formal thinking which may be related to right-wing authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism. The conceptual and empirical literature suggests that many aspects of cognition which play a role in the formation of conservative politica...

Research on the basis of political ideology indicates that psychological variables influence ideological positions. In particular, the role of authoritarianism is of long-standing interest to political scholars. This article looks at how political expertise conditions the ideological implications of the authoritarian predisposition. Although theories of authoritarianism imply that it is a const...

Research on adult populations has widely investigated the deep differences that characterize individuals who embrace either conservative or liberal views of the world. More recently, research has started to investigate these differences at very early stages of life. One major goal is to explore how parental political ideology may influence children's characteristics that are known to be associa...

Jylhä, K. M. 2016. Ideological roots of climate change denial. Resistance to change, acceptance of inequality, or both? Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Social Sciences 128. 82 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-554-9621-0. Climate change denial has been found to correlate with sociopolitical ideology. The general aim of the pres...

Analyzing political conservatism as motivated social cognition integrates theories of personality (authoritarianism, dogmatism-intolerance of ambiguity), epistemic and existential needs (for closure, regulatory focus, terror management), and ideological rationalization (social dominance, system justification). A meta-analysis (88 samples, 12 countries, 22,818 cases) confirms that several psycho...

Individuals with different political attitudes attribute their political tendencies to different sources of moral authority. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between moral authority sources, political attitude and authoritarianism. A total of 128 subjects from two universities participated in this study by completing the Moral Authority Test-Revised (MAS-R) and the Authoritarian...

Using a representative sample of Belgian adolescents (N=1,530) and both their parents, we investigated the parent-child similarity in prejudice toward different outgroups and ideological attitudes (right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation). Contrary to previous studies, we distinguished between common and specific components of prejudice to test whether the parent-child simi...