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An attempt to clarify the link between cognitive style and political ideology: A non-western replication and extension

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  • Yilmaz, Onurcan
  • Saribay, S. Adil

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Previous studies relating low-effort or intuitive thinking to political conservatism are limited to Western cultures. Using Turkish and predominantly Muslim samples, Study 1 found that analytic cognitive style (ACS) is negatively correlated with political conservatism. Study 2 found that ACS correlates negatively with political orientation and with social and personal conservatism, but not with economic conservatism. It also examined other variables that might help to explain this correlation. Study 3 tried to manipulate ACS via two different standard priming procedures in two different samples, but our manipulation checks failed. Study 4 manipulated intuitive thinking style via cognitive load manipulation to see whether it enhances conservatism for contextualized political attitudes but we did not find a significant effect. Overall, the results indicate that social liberals tend to think more analytically than conservatives and people’s long term political attitudes may be resistant to experimental manipulations.

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  • Yilmaz, Onurcan & Saribay, S. Adil, 2016. "An attempt to clarify the link between cognitive style and political ideology: A non-western replication and extension," Judgment and Decision Making, Cambridge University Press, vol. 11(3), pages 287-300, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:judgdm:v:11:y:2016:i:3:p:287-300_7
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