343. Timothy Redmond — Political Tribalism in America: How Hyper-Partisanship Dumbs Down Democracy and How to Fix It
The Michael Shermer Show
The Role of Moral Foundations Theory in Political Conservatism
Stanford University social psychologist John Joseph and his colleagues published a paper in the prestigious journal psychological bulletin entitled political conservatism as motivated social cognition. It was a synthesis of 50 years of findings published in 88 papers encompassing 22,818 subjects that led researchers to conclude the conservatives suffer from uncertainty avoidance terror management along with dogmatism and intolerance of ambiguity. Jordan Peterson said you know this has not been replicated and it has flaws and so on okay yeahYeah I think even um you know there's also like Jonathan Heitz work with moral foundations theory there's some studies that have questioned call that into question two because liberals and conservatives sort of emphasize different values but again some challenges that is like well it kind
