Highlights•Political conservatives are more likely than liberals to:•Prioritize values of
conformity and tradition.•Desire shared reality with like-minded others.•Exaggerate within …

Moral foundations theory has been a generative framework in moral psychology in the last 2
decades. Here, we revisit the theory and develop a new measurement tool, the Moral …

Sociologists and political scientists have often observed that citizens of Central and Eastern
Europe express high levels of disillusionment with their social, economic and political …

A leading psychologist explains why nearly all of us--including many of those who are
persecuted and powerless--so often defend the social systems that cause misery and …

A theory of system justification was proposed 25 years ago by Jost and Banaji (1994, Br. J.
Soc. Psychol., 33, 1) in the British Journal of Social Psychology to explain 'the participation …

We argue that because of a long history of intergroup conflict and competition, humans
evolved to be tribal creatures. Tribalism is not inherently bad, but it can lead to ideological …

Research on the dispositional origins of political preferences is flourishing, and the primary
conclusion drawn from this work is that stronger needs for security and certainty attract …

Religious and conspiracy beliefs share the feature of assuming powerful forces that
determine the fate of the world. Correspondingly, they have been theorized to address …

Arguments opposing same-sex marriage are often made on religious grounds. In five
studies conducted in the United States and Canada (combined N= 1,673), we observed that …

It is commonly assumed that political attitudes are driven by self-interest and that poor
people heavily favor policies aimed at redistributing wealth. This assumption fails to explain …