Showing posts with label political socialization. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political socialization. Show all posts

YourMorals.Org

Monday, November 19, 2018

Collaboration among social psychologists who study morality and politics. Goal is to create a site that allows to test a variety of theories about moral psychology. One of our main goals is to foster understanding across the political spectrum.  

Current studies and questionnaires...


https://www.yourmorals.org/index.php

The hypocritical nature of reaction to political bias

Monday, June 4, 2018

ingroup-harming biased messages/acts are considered more serious and are more likely to warrant corrective action...

Liberals in the United States decry the bias of Fox News, while conservatives decry the bias of the New York Times. But new research suggest that partisans do not care much about political neutrality.

The study, published in PLOS One, found that partisan mostly cared about political bias that harmed their own side. 


The research:
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196674

The friendly explanation:
http://www.psypost.org/2018/05/political-partisans-not-really-concerned-political-bias-per-se-51325

Political Polarization Is A Psychology Problem

Wednesday, May 30, 2018

This discord worries me as a psychologist, not only for the stress it causes, but because it smacks of a social psychology phenomenon known as “group polarization.” In group polarization, people who have different views become reactionary and disagree with one another in a knee jerk response because they have identified so strongly with their “team” or in group. Thus, they begin to automatically reject any ideas associated with the “opponent,” or the out group. This can create a vicious circle in which the more we dislike a certain group, the more negatively we judge whatever they have to say ― and the more negatively we judge their statements, the more we dislike them, and the more we dislike them, the more negatively we judge their statements. Round and round we go.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/political-polarization-is-a-psychology-problem_us_5a01dd9ee4b07eb5118255e5

I teach them all the good I can, and recommend them to others from whom I think they will get some moral benefit. And the treasures that the wise men of old have left us in their writings I open and explore with my friends. If we come on any good thing, we extract it, and we set much store on being useful to one another. - Socrates, Memorabilia
 
 
 
What we maintain is that in none of the problems of life can men afford to lose sight of the storehouse bequeathed to them by the ancients. In the complexus of everything which differentiates man from the brute creation, the voice of antiquity must be heard...

-H. Browne, quoted in "Classics and Citizenship" The Classical Quarterly, 1920