We propose that Frantz Fanon's principle of sociogeny, which underscores the role of objective social, historical, cultural, and political forces in shaping individual psychology, remains singularly ....

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The MAGA reconstruction of the North is well underway

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a detrimental effect on people's mental health. Drawing on the palliative function of ideologies, we suggest that people rely on system-justif...

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

Two studies investigated climate privilege--an idea derived from existing research on racial and economic privilege. U.S. citizens consume a larger th…

We used supervised machine-learning techniques to examine ideological asymmetries in online rumor transmission. Although liberals were more likely than conserva...

Previous models of social identification and collective (in)action circumscribe their accounts to individuals' belonging to a single social group. However, an individual may belong to a multiplicity ....

Scientific Reports - Citizens in democratic countries have more benevolent traits, fewer malevolent traits, and greater well-being

A new study has found that conservatives exhibit stronger anti-democratic tendencies than liberals, driven by psychological traits like authoritarianism and social dominance orientation.

In social psychology these days it is commonplace to read or hear that liberal-leftists and conservative-rightists are every bit as “moral”; prejudiced and intolerant; susceptible to misinformation, ...

Since Donald Trump’s presidency (2016–2020), political observers have rushed to explain why some Latinos support nativist policies that harm members of their ow...

Previous research suggests that societal threats often increase ideological support for the social system, but the attitudinal effects of COVID-19 seem to have varied greatly. Here we present the res...

A new study has found that conservatives exhibit stronger anti-democratic tendencies than liberals, driven by psychological traits like authoritarianism and social dominance orientation.

Three studies demonstrate that, all else being equal, the threshold for justifying social change is higher than the threshold for maintaining the status quo....

Psychology study offers messaging roadmap for changing attitudes on environmental issues and policies

Communications Psychology - In a nationally representative survey in the United States, conservatives were less supportive of democratic norms such as political equality and legal rights and...

Throughout modernity, incremental progress has been a common pattern of social change. We propose a novel social prospect theory of intergroup relations that...

Healthy democratic systems feature competing visions of a good society, and that competition can be beneficial for society as a whole. At the same time, democracies require tolerance, trust, and coo...