Ideology: Its Resurgence in Social, Personality, and Political Psychology:

摘要: We trace the rise, fall, and resurgence of political ideology as a topic research in social, personality, psychology. For over 200 years, belief systems have been classified usefully according to single left-right (or liberal-conservative) dimension that, we believe, possesses two core aspects: (a) advocating versus resisting social change (b) rejecting accepting inequality. There many skeptics notion that most people are ideologically inclined, but recent psychological evidence suggests differences pronounced life domains. Implicit well explicit preferences for tradition, conformity, order, stability, traditional values, hierarchy-versus those progress, rebelliousness, chaos, flexibility, feminism, equality-are associated with conservatism liberalism, respectively. Conservatives score consistently higher than liberals on measures system justification. Furthermore, there personality lifestyle between conservatives situational variables induce either liberal or conservative shifts opinions. Our thesis is ideological may be structured largely reasons linked variability needs reduce uncertainty threat.