APS
31st APS Annual Convention · 2019
The Psychological Roots of Ideological Attitudes: A Data-Driven Approach
- Leor Zmigrod
University of Cambridge - Ian Eisenberg
Stanford University - Patrick Bissett
Stanford University - Trevor Robbins
University of Cambridge - Russell Poldrack
Stanford University
Abstract
This study evaluated the predictive power of cognition (across 37 tasks) and personality (22 surveys) to ideological inclinations in politics, nationalism, and religion. Cross-validation prediction and Bayesian analyses revealed that incorporating psychological factors into predictive models of ideological attitudes increases explanatory power by 10-fold relative to solely relying on demographics.
Individual Differences
