1. Political Psychology
... helps explain why conservatives are prone to both religious as well as xenophobic or sexist interpretation of information because such authoritarian tendencies are exacerbated under threat as Napier et al. indicates (313). In processing information, they mentally operate under rigid black-and-white thinking, decreased cognitive complexity, and close-mindedness, all of which predicate fundamental ... taxing and limiting them results in a predilection for opposing change, accepting inequality, and judging people based on their character traits. On the other hand, however, Eidelman et al. a...
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