Despite Miller's (1969) now-famous clarion call to "give psychology away" to the general public, scientific psychology has done relatively little to combat festering problems of ideological extremism and both inter- and intragroup conflict. After proposing that ideological extremism is a significant contributor to world conflict and that confirmation bias and several related biases are signific...

Two key features robustly describe ideological differences in society: (i) individuals persistently disagree about objective facts; (ii) individuals also disagree about which sources can be trusted to provide reliable information about these facts. We develop a model in which these patterns arise endogenously as the result of small deviations from Bayesian information processing. Individuals re...

This article aims to determine the effect of Communication on performance State Civil Apparatus during Covid-19 pandemic at Regional People's Representative Council Office North Sumatra Province. study uses theory Communication. research was examined Legislative The method used in this is correlational quantitative. population (ASN) Province, totaling 106 people. results indicate that: (1) Ther...

Conventional wisdom, buttressed by numerous empirical studies, has questioned the importance of both class and ideological factors on voting behavior in Canada. However, two recent studies of the 1997 Canadian national election [Gidengil et al., Canadian J. Political Sci. 32 (1999) 247; Nevitte et al., Unsteady State: The 1997 Canadian Federal Election, Oxford University Press, Ontario, 2000] i...

It is a common fear in many countries that ideological parties will come to power through elections but will implement extreme policies. Many countries cope with this problem by overriding the election results when such parties are elected. We demonstrate that the alternative approach of containing these parties within the democratic system is more effective. We show that, as the probability of...

In an effort to address climate change, many cities have joined the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) whose members commit to work toward five specific program objectives designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This study examines the extent to which 257 member cities in the US have been successful in achieving these program milestones and identifies factors...

It is widely thought that news organizations exhibit ideological bias, but rigorously quantifying such slant has proven methodologically challenging. Through a combination of machine learning and crowdsourcing techniques, we investigate the selection and framing of political issues in 15 major U.S. news outlets. Starting with 803,146 news stories published over 12 months, we first used supervis...

The paper focuses on ideological determinants of therapeutic treatment of guilt. The ideological factors have strong, often unrecognised, effect on both therapists and patients. Especially religious vs. non-religious or anti religious attitudes play an important role. Therapeutic approaches to guilt can be often understood and classified respectively (especially in case of abortion). Some relev...