PSY320H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Longitudinal Study, Authoritarianism, Anatta
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Resistant to change => system justifying ideology/ more sensitive to uncertainty and threat. Higher in moral foundations of loyalty/ingroup, purity/sanctity, and authority than liberals. Political attitudes => evaluations of specific issues (abortion, gun control) We measure political orientation which is in turn correlated to political attitudes (cid:862)co(cid:374)se(cid:396)(cid:448)atis(cid:373)(cid:863) (cid:449)ould (cid:271)e asso(cid:272)iated, o(cid:374) a(cid:448)e(cid:396)age, (cid:449)ith: More positive attitudes toward: the death penalty, religion in government, tradition, (cid:862)traditio(cid:374)al fa(cid:373)ilies,(cid:863) (cid:373)ilitary spe(cid:374)di(cid:374)g, etc. More negative attitudes toward: gun control, same-sex marriage, abortion rights, stem cell research, multiculturalism, immigration, etc. E. g. , (cid:862)what ou(cid:396) (cid:272)ou(cid:374)t(cid:396)y (cid:396)eally (cid:374)eeds is a strong, determined leader who will crush evil, and take us back to our true path. A = being tough on dissidents, law-breakers, perversion, and crime. T = old-fashioned values vs. experimentation, promiscuousness, deviation from behaviour sanctioned by religion. Often, sdo and act/rwa considered a pair which accounts for more of the complexity of po than either does alone.
