1. Political Psychology
Much of the literature on political psychology presents compelling evidence in favor of the notion that people subscribe to either liberal or conservative political ideologies because they think or process information along different psychosocial dimensions. ... The theory claims that there is a "matching process that takes place whereby people adopt ideological belief systems that are most likely to satisfy their psychological needs and motives" (341). ... Therefore, what Jost et al. find is that "intolerance of ambiguity, by increasing cognitive and motivational tendencies to...
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