The cognitive and perceptual correlates of ideological attitudes: a data-driven approach.

ABSTRACT: Although human existence is enveloped by ideologies, remarkably little is understood about the relationships between ideological attitudes and psychological traits. Even less is known about how cognitive dispositions-individual differences in how information is perceived and processed- sculpt individuals' ideological worldviews, proclivities for extremist beliefs and resistance (or receptivity) to evidence. Using an unprecedented number of cognitive tasks (n = 37) and personality surveys (n = 22), along with data-driven analyses including drift-diffusion and Bayesian modelling, we uncovered the specific psychological signatures of political, nationalistic, religious and dogmatic beliefs. Cognitive and personality assessments consistently outperformed demographic predictors in

SUBMITTER: Zmigrod L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7935109 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature