Most theories in social and political psychology stress self‐interest, intergroup conflict,
ethnocentrism, homophily, ingroup bias, outgroup antipathy, dominance, and resistance …

Ideology has re-emerged as an important topic of inquiry among social, personality, and
political psychologists. In this review, we examine recent theory and research concerning …

The widespread prevalence and persistence of misinformation in contemporary societies,
such as the false belief that there is a link between childhood vaccinations and autism, is a …

An extensive literature addresses citizen ignorance, but very little research focuses on
misperceptions. Can these false or unsubstantiated beliefs about politics be corrected …

Personality has consequences. Measures of personality have contemporaneous and
predictive relations to a variety of important outcomes. Using the Big Five factors as …

The" end of ideology" was declared by social scientists in the aftermath of World War II. They
argued that (a) ordinary citizens' political attitudes lack the kind of stability, consistency, and …

It is often claimed that conspiracy theories are endorsed with the same level of intensity
across the left‐right ideological spectrum. But do liberals and conservatives in the United …

Although skeptics continue to doubt that most people are “ideological,” evidence suggests
that meaningful left‐right differences do exist and that they may be rooted in basic …

The history of academic understanding of the design process—developed in a field often
referred to as design theories and methods—displays both a need to make design thinking …

We trace the rise, fall, and resurgence of political ideology as a topic of research in social,
personality, and political psychology. For over 200 years, political belief systems have been …