RE: cognitive functioning in extremists
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Seemingly the most totalitarian and anti-intellectual places in the United States and Canada now are on university campuses these institutions are funded by public monies and even so free speech is considered unwelcome most of the time on these campuses because they're seen as disruptive, or racist, or somehow just plain bad. In other words ideas and concepts can't be rationally discussed anymore because they offend the ideologically driven left basically liberals socialists who tend aside with the old Soviet socialism as a ideology as a way of life. I'm not sure what the Royal society would have to say about that all I do know is that both Stalin and Hitler were very bad guys and only one of them got eliminated unfortunately. Chairman Mao took up both in a way Stalin and Hitler's methodology and mindset but did it mostly to their own Chinese people.I wonder if this royal society paper is actually scientific in nature or is it instead ideological? Because of it is ideological as it might be, then possibly it's a way of doing what the initiators of the Holocaust did and begin to dehumanize the people they don't like in this case nationalist and conservatives as stated in the paper. So if they're going to dehumanization route to make it easier to kill us, this gives me pause interesting article though!
On Thursday, February 25, 2021 Lawrence Crowell <everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Although human existence is enveloped by ideologies, remarkably little is understood about the relationships between ideological attitudes and psychological traits. Even less is known about how cognitive dispositions—individual differences in how information is perceived and processed— sculpt individuals' ideological worldviews, proclivities for extremist beliefs and resistance (or receptivity) to evidence. Using an unprecedented number of cognitive tasks (n = 37) and personality surveys (n = 22), along with data-driven analyses including drift-diffusion and Bayesian modelling, we uncovered the specific psychological signatures of political, nationalistic, religious and dogmatic beliefs. Cognitive and personality assessments consistently outperformed demographic predictors in accounting for individual differences in ideological preferences by 4 to 15-fold. Furthermore, data-driven analyses revealed that individuals’ ideological attitudes mirrored their cognitive decision-making strategies. Conservatism and nationalism were related to greater caution in perceptual decision-making tasks and to reduced strategic information processing, while dogmatism was associated with slower evidence accumulation and impulsive tendencies. Religiosity was implicated in heightened agreeableness and risk perception. Extreme pro-group attitudes, including violence endorsement against outgroups, were linked to poorer working memory, slower perceptual strategies, and tendencies towards impulsivity and sensation-seeking—reflecting overlaps with the psychological profiles of conservatism and dogmatism. Cognitive and personality signatures were also generated for ideologies such as authoritarianism, system justification, social dominance orientation, patriotism and receptivity to evidence or alternative viewpoints; elucidating their underpinnings and highlighting avenues for future research. Together these findings suggest that ideological worldviews may be reflective of low-level perceptual and cognitive functions.
The original article is here:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0424
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John Clark
> Seemingly the most totalitarian and anti-intellectual places in the United States and Canada now are on university campuses
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smitra
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 1:04 PM spudboy100 via Everything List
> <everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
>> the United States and Canada now are on university campuses_
> I grant you that political correctness has gone way overboard on some
> university campuses, but in a world where a mob of mindless Trump
> zombies can sack the capitol building while chanting "Hang Mike Pence"
> and QAnon members of Congress worry about Jewish space lasers starting
> wildfires in California and 40% of Americans think Evolution never
> happened and the Universe is less than 10,000 years old, saying
> universities are the most anti-intellectual places in the United
> States is a RIDICULOUS overstatement.
>
It's more to do with it being left-wing political correctness. You would
have heard far less complaints if it were right-wing political
correctness. There would certainly be some complaints from left-wing
activists, but far less from the political establishment, it would not
be a big talking point. When the issue would come up, you would hear
people like spudboy point out that if you don't like what the
universities are doing, then because we live in a free country, you are
free to start your own university.
Saibal