Lower Levels of Resistance to Change (but not Opposition to Equality) Is Related to Analytic Cognitive Style

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ID5338534
AutoresOzlem Yilmaz (0000-0002-6094-7162, Acıbadem Adana Hospital), Onurcan Yilmaz (Department of Psychology, Doğus University, Acıbadem, Istanbul, Turkey), A Saribay (0000-0001-7070-7106, Bogaziçi University), S Adil Saribay (Boğaziçi University)
Año2018
Volumen49
Número2
Páginas65-75
Fecha de publicación2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1864-9335 • E-ISSN: 2151-2590
EditorialHogrefe Verlag (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1027/1864-9335/a000328
OpenAlexW2789810051
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas63

In recent years, there has been increasing research attention to cognitive style differences between liberals and conservatives. While some studies have found a negative relation between conservatism and analytic thinking tendency, others have not observed such a relation. None of these studies has measured the core motives underlying conservative ideology and investigated their relation with analytic cognitive style (ACS). We predicted that ACS is related to only one of the core motives underlying conservatism (resistance to change), but not the other (opposition to equality). This hypothesis was supported in three non-Western samples (total n = 1,552). This finding may clarify why some studies found a relation between cognitive style and conservatism, while others did not

Cognition · Cognitive style · Conservatism · Ideology · Opposition (politics · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Resistance (ecology · Style (visual arts · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Law · Social Psychology