Political belief formation: individual differences and situational factors
Political belief formation: individual differences and situational factors
This chapter reviews research at the intersection of psychology and political science that studies how people form political beliefs. We discuss the degree to which people’s motivations shape the beliefs that they form, paying particular attention to the extent to which people’s political beliefs are generated through reflection. Both individual differences and situational factors affect the extent to which people are reflective in political domains. As always, more questions remain than researchers have answered, and we conclude with some thoughts about the most pressing ones that future research should tackle.
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Cambridge University Press
Muradova, Lala
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Arceneaux, Kevin
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November 2022
Muradova, Lala
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Arceneaux, Kevin
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Muradova, Lala and Arceneaux, Kevin
(2022)
Political belief formation: individual differences and situational factors.
In,
Musolino, Julien, Sommer, Joseph and Hemmer, Pernille
(eds.)
Cognitive Sciences of Beliefs.
Cambridge University Press, .
(doi:10.1017/9781009001021.021).
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This chapter reviews research at the intersection of psychology and political science that studies how people form political beliefs. We discuss the degree to which people’s motivations shape the beliefs that they form, paying particular attention to the extent to which people’s political beliefs are generated through reflection. Both individual differences and situational factors affect the extent to which people are reflective in political domains. As always, more questions remain than researchers have answered, and we conclude with some thoughts about the most pressing ones that future research should tackle.
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Lala Muradova
Author:
Kevin Arceneaux
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Julien Musolino
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Joseph Sommer
Editor:
Pernille Hemmer
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