Are cognitive styles associated with certain political positions?

A contentious debate in political psychology has centered on the role of cognitive rigidity in shaping individuals’ political ideologies and worldviews.
We take a look at some of the research regarding cognitive rigidity and how it is associated with certain political positions. Horseshoe theory guys feasting with this one.

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REFERENCES:

Zmigrod, Leor, Peter Jason Rentfrow, and Trevor W. Robbins. "The partisan mind: Is extreme political partisanship related to cognitive inflexibility?." Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 149.3 (2020): 407.

Zmigrod, Leor. "The role of cognitive rigidity in political ideologies: theory, evidence, and future directions." Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 34 (2020): 34-39.

[thucydides]

I think the most common example I see of cognitive rigidity is the inability to entertain hypotheticals. They literally can’t step out of their worldview for half a second. I also view this as a giveaway that the person isn’t confident in their ability to defend their position, even if they act confident

[thiagolucas]

I think we can't conflate partisanship with ideology. Because in my experience, people that are to the extremes in ideology, for example anarchists, real communists, and occasionally the far right, tend to view both parties with skepticism and thus be independent.

So while this can be framed as a win for the "center", it can also be the exact opposite, or neither.

[DallasTheRhyno]

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[waqaskhanmomand]

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[joecurran]

I am not right-wing but I often wondered why the psychology of left-wing authoritarianism was ignored in the literature. Good to see it is catching up to date. I would agree you see it more on the right, but you can see it in both.

By the way, my hypothesis would be that rigidity leads to poltical extremes. After all, when it comes to politics, people rarely change their mind.

[JohnSmith-ftgc]

Before we get anywhere near a definition for Cognitive Rigidity, we need a definition for Extremism. 2ndly, if they hare not comparing "not extremists" with the "extremists", they can't demonstrate a positive correlation between "extremism" and Cognitive Rigidity. Instead, the researchers just assumed everyone knew what they were talking about - it's just asinine groupthink. Edit: left out "can't" before demonstrate.

That the researcher hasn't even considered that some issues are not negotiable eg the right to strike (take industrial action), or the right to health care & housing, for reasons OTHER than Cognitive Rigidity reflects upon the researcher alone.

You might call them...Cognitively Rigid.

That these basic & fundamental issues escaped not only the researcher, but their faculty suggests there isn't anyone on the left there at all, let alone "Left Wing Bias".

Edit: the above demonstrates a correlation without causation between org lacking lefties and orgs lack of competence. I propose the underlying cause is a lack of diversity of perspective in the researchers work environment & potentially their social life. I suspect leftists in their social life find the researchers tiresome and irrelevant ; leftists gave up.

An alternative interpretation to that of an ernest, smug and amusingly bad research:

Commissioned validation by a self identifying centrist.

[g.aathoz]

I don't think this study is anything but self-fulfilling, I mean it is very obvious that people with strong political convictions will be more certain of their views and therefore less likely to change opinion. Independents not being sure or just entertaining a lot of different perspectives will also by nature be more likely to change views. Of course it is interesting that they are able to prove it with that simple test but as a thesis it is pretty self-evident what the results are going to be.

[userMB]

I didn't read the paper but i'm assuming that the researchers were Americans. I'm an amateur in science and philosophy at best, however, it seems pretty clear to me that this cognitive rigidity does not hold true in the USA or Europe. In some specific ways it does in the European country i live, like some parties not willing to concede to lowering nitrogen in the air by drastically reducing factory farming, but i can't say that there is a lot of rigidity in EU countries at all afaik, just necessary healthy clash of ideas like it supposed to in a Democracy.

In the US things are pretty clear; there are Democrats who want to make the long overdue effective policies, and the Republicans standing in their way.
The voter base of the latter are the dumb radicals. A charlatan just have to make sentences with the words anti-woke, anti-abortion, gun-loving, family values etc. and they are going to vote for them because they are ignorant, racist, poorly educated, resentful and whole bunch of other degenerative characteristics. There goes not a single day by that i didn't find proof that solidified this fact.

[maxg]

what about people that dont consider themselves dems, reps or independent? if they just fall into the last category even if they are far left/right this might skew the results a bunch