APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
The Politics of Self-Control: Evidence for Ideological (A)Symmetries in Financial, Health and Environmental Self-Control Decisions
- Michael Edem Fiagbenu
Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany - Thomas Kessler
Friedrich-Schiller University of Jena, Germany
Abstract
Self-report and delay discounting tasks reveal that political conservatives exhibit greater self-control in health domains whereas liberals exhibit greater self-control in environmental domains. Ideological (a)symmetries are mediated by manipulations of (dis)belief in free-will. However, there is little evidence for ideological asymmetry in financial domains. Consequences for political self-regulation are discussed.
Judgment and Decision Making
