Right-wing individuals are more likely to fall for political bullshit, according to new research Psy

[LetMyPeopleVote]

TFG supporters are easily fooled

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/right-wing-individuals-are-more-likely-to-fall-for-political-bullshit-according-to-new-research/

Politically conservative individuals tend to be slightly more receptive to political bullshit, according to new research that examined participants from three different countries. The study, which examined “statements of political content that intend to persuade voters, but are so vague and broad that they are essentially meaningless,” has been published in the Journal of Social and Political Psychology. Vukasin Gligoric, the corresponding author of the study and a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam, said he was motivated to investigate the topic of political bullshit for two primary...

[liberal N proud]

1. Duh!

[niyad]

2. NSS

[jcgoldie]

3. you mean like...

If someone they supported got their ass beat in an election and then claimed they actually won with no evidence whatsoever, then they might get incensed and attack the capitol? (theoretically)

[Aristus]

4. That's the first chapter in the Book Of Duh.

[lame54]

5. They actually spent money on that?

[SheltieLover]

6. 2011 NIH brain research reflects this

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/

Imo, same for religion. No offense to anyone intended.

It's all transgenerational.

[lindysalsagal]

14. And it makes perfect sense. Getting people to believe without proof is the definition of gullible.

[SheltieLover]

16. Easy to frighten a person with overactive amygdala.

For sure!

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Water is wet

No kidding.

[LoisB]

8. Someone needed to do a study to determine this? I could have told them that and I'm not

a PhD candidate.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. TFG supporters are idiots

Link to tweet

[TigressDem]

10. Because watching FAUX kNews sucks away IQ points

People watching credible news agencies and still double checking their facts, keep their grey matter in tact.

At least that is my colloquial understanding.

[ThoughtCriminal]

11. They have to

If they did not fall for BS, they wouldn't be right-wing.

The political right depends on promoting failed policy, bigotry, sexism, and racism. BS is all they have.

[Chainfire]

12. Without doing a big study, I would suggest that Religious people would also fall faster than

non-believers because they have been trained, usually from birth, to believe without evidence.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

13. They HAVE to... IF they want to maintain...

... their group identity as right-wing authoritarians -- i.e., the modern GOP.

Remember the happy "ditto heads" who called Rush Limbaugh years ago?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_authoritarian_personality
According to Altemeyer, the above-mentioned reasoning flaws prevalent among authoritarians are all connected to their instinct to not think for themselves but to absorb their beliefs from their group, with particular deference to what the leader tells them to believe. If they are to absorb whatever they're taught, they must not think critically about the logic of what they're taught. A person who can think critically can achieve sustainable beliefs as they come closer to the truth, but an unthinking authoritarian can only achieve sustainable beliefs if they stubbornly stick to what they were taught no matter what outsiders tell them.

EDIT:
This old Will Rogers quote was not insulting to me!
"I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat."

[Sympthsical]

15. There were literally 27 Trump voters in the sample

I offer a new study in its place.

"People given a headline they like will agree with it and not bother to read any further." University of Sympthsical. No citation necessary. Call it a gift.

It's actually a hilarious study when you dig into it. It reads like something some graduate statistics types would do on a lark.

"Political psychology" is an odd subject, because there are all kinds of biases that come into play. You also have to dig into the definitions being used (for example, how they configured neoliberalism, which is more neoconservative than Trumpist).

But, the purpose of most of these seem to be purely for clicks and social media. "Look this study says I'm smarter, more attractive, and just all around a better person. It's science!"

Which is the ultimate irony, given the subject matter.

[GoodRaisin]

17. Yeah, we don't need a study that TFG supporters are more easily fooled.

It’s pretty easy to believe that just by observation of them in daily life.