Thinking outside the ballot box.
heterogeneity
ideological taxonomy
left–right spectrum
measurement and assessment
personality
political psychology
Journal
Trends in cognitive sciences
ISSN: 1879-307X
Titre abrégé: Trends Cogn Sci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 9708669
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
07 2023
07 2023
Historique:
received:
07
06
2022
revised:
27
03
2023
accepted:
28
03
2023
medline:
16
6
2023
pubmed:
21
4
2023
entrez:
20
04
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
A deeply heterogeneous set of ideological cohorts have shaped the course of history. From anarchists and authoritarians to Zionists and Zapatistas, the expansive alphabet of politics demands an equally expansive psychological vocabulary to describe political belief systems. We propose that constructing such a vocabulary is best facilitated by decentering familiar models that emphasize psychological differences between leftists and rightists. Synthesizing recent developments in the fields of personality, political science, and psychopathology, we characterize individual variation in politics as high-dimensional, heterarchical, intrapersonally eclectic, and contextually shaped and activated. Developing a data-driven taxonomic model of political-psychological phenomena will help create a foundational base of knowledge within political psychology that is more rigorous, more replicable, and certainly richer to investigate.
Identifiants
pubmed: 37080806
pii: S1364-6613(23)00074-8
doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.03.012
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
605-615Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of interests No interests are declared.