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
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

605-615

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2023 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of interests No interests are declared.

Auteurs

Thomas H Costello (TH)

Emory University, Department of Psychology, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA; University of Regina, Hill-Levene School of Business, Regina, Saskatchewan S4S 0A2, Canada. Electronic address: thcostello1@gmail.com.

Leor Zmigrod (L)

University of Cambridge, Department of Psychology, Cambridge CB2 1TN, UK; Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin 14193, Germany.

Arber Tasimi (A)

Emory University, Department of Psychology, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.

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