Political Ideologies
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Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation to Reduce Responses to Ideological Threats
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2025
Source: Holbrook, C., et al. Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation of the Posterior Medial Frontal Cortex to Experimentally Reduce Ideological Threat Responses. J. Vis. Exp. (2018)This video demonstrates the application of continuous theta burst stimulation (cTBS) to modulate responses to ideological threats. Electromyography (EMG) electrodes record motor signals, while a magnetic coil stimulates the primary motor cortex to determine the active motor threshold (aMT). The coil is then repositioned...
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Continuous Theta Burst Stimulation of the Posterior Medial Frontal Cortex to Experimentally Reduce Ideological Threat Responses
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2018
Threats reliably evoke shifts in high-level ideological investment, but little work to date has explored the neural mechanisms underlying these dynamics. This paper describes how continuous theta burst transcranial magnetic stimulation may be employed to test the contribution of the posterior medial frontal cortex (and/or other regions) to threat-related ideological shifts.
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Investigating the 'Uncatchable Smile' in Leonardo da Vinci's La Bella Principessa: A Comparison with the Mona Lisa and Pollaiuolo's Portrait of a Girl
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2016
This paper discusses the methodology used to reveal the 'Uncatchable Smile' illusion in Leonardo da Vinci's La Bella Principessa portrait. A combination of three methods was used (inter-observation, structured interviews, and psychophysical experiments), which led to an investigation that shaped itself without prior beliefs, thus reducing potential researcher bias.
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Attribution Theory
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2020
Behavior is a product of both the situation (e.g., cultural influences, social roles, and the presence of bystanders) and of the person (e.g., personality characteristics). Subfields of psychology tend to focus on one influence or behavior over others. Situationism is the view that our behavior and actions are determined by our immediate environment and surroundings. In contrast, dispositionism holds that our behavior is determined by internal factors (Heider, 1958). An internal factor is an...
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Using fMRI to Dissect Moral Judgment
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2023
Source: William Brady & Jay Van Bavel—New York University In examining the roles of reason and emotion in moral judgments, psychologists and philosophers alike point to the trolley dilemma and the footbridge dilemma. With the trolley dilemma, most people say that it is appropriate to pull a switch to stop a train from hitting five people by diverting it to kill one person. However, with the footbridge dilemma, most people say it is inappropriate to push a large man off of a bridge in order...
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Political ideologies can shape political judgment through motivated reasoning, a process in which people interpret political information in ways influenced by their existing commitments. This mechanism affects how individuals evaluate competing policies, because the same information may receive different interpretations from people with different ideological orientations. Researchers therefore examine not only stated preferences but also the reasoning that supports them.
Socialization, personal experience, and group identity contribute in different but interacting ways. Socialization supplies politically relevant beliefs through a person’s social environment, while personal experience can influence which issues feel important or credible. Group identity adds a sense of belonging that may guide interpretation and evaluation. Together, these influences help explain variation in ideological attitudes among individuals and groups.
Political ideologies may support cooperation or intensify social conflict, depending on how people respond to group differences and competing beliefs. When ideological commitments become tied to group identity, they can affect attitudes toward other groups and contribute to prejudice or polarization. The same framework also helps researchers investigate when shared beliefs encourage collective action rather than division.
Researchers can use political ideologies as a framework for examining attitudes, persuasion, polarization, prejudice, and collective action. These outcomes cover both individual responses, such as evaluating a policy or responding to political communication, and group-level patterns, such as division or coordinated action. This range connects belief systems with observable civic and social behavior.
Applications extend to civic behavior, political communication, and leadership. Studying ideological influences can clarify how people participate in civic life, how political messages are interpreted, and how leaders affect groups. It also provides context for understanding the psychological conditions that support cooperation or intensify social conflict, linking individual processes with broader political and organizational outcomes.
Within psychology, political ideologies provide a way to connect socialization and identity with collective outcomes. Researchers can examine how personal experiences and group memberships influence political attitudes, how motivated reasoning shapes responses to information, and how these processes relate to persuasion, polarization, or collective action. This makes the topic relevant to both individual-level analysis and the study of groups.