[HTML][HTML] Cognitive–motivational mechanisms of political polarization in social-communicative contexts

JT Jost, DS Baldassarri, JN Druckman - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022 - nature.com
Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

The evidence for motivated reasoning in climate change preference formation

JN Druckman, MC McGrath - Nature Climate Change, 2019 - nature.com
Despite a scientific consensus, citizens are divided when it comes to climate change—often
along political lines. Democrats or liberals tend to believe that human activity is a primary …

An application of theory of planned behavior to predict young Indian consumers' green hotel visit intention

VK Verma, B Chandra - Journal of cleaner production, 2018 - Elsevier
The study, being explorative, attempts to extend the social-psychological behavioral model
ie Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) by including two additional constructs viz. moral …

Moral reframing: A technique for effective and persuasive communication across political divides

M Feinberg, R Willer - Social and Personality Psychology …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The political landscape in the US and many other countries is characterized by policy
impasses and animosity between rival political groups. Research finds that these divisions …

A toolkit for understanding and addressing climate scepticism

MJ Hornsey, S Lewandowsky - Nature Human Behaviour, 2022 - nature.com
Despite over 50 years of messaging about the reality of human-caused climate change,
substantial portions of the population remain sceptical. Furthermore, many sceptics remain …

Attitudes and attitude change

D Albarracin, S Shavitt - Annual review of psychology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
This review covers research on attitudes and attitude change published between 2010 and
2017. We characterize this period as one of significant progress toward an understanding of …

At least bias is bipartisan: A meta-analytic comparison of partisan bias in liberals and conservatives

PH Ditto, BS Liu, CJ Clark, SP Wojcik… - Perspectives on …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Both liberals and conservatives accuse their political opponents of partisan bias, but is there
empirical evidence that one side of the political aisle is indeed more biased than the other …

[HTML][HTML] The potential of generative AI for personalized persuasion at scale

SC Matz, JD Teeny, SS Vaid, H Peters, GM Harari… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Matching the language or content of a message to the psychological profile of its recipient
(known as “personalized persuasion”) is widely considered to be one of the most effective …

Anti-intellectualism, populism, and motivated resistance to expert consensus

E Merkley - Public Opinion Quarterly, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Scholars have maintained that public attitudes often diverge from expert consensus due to
ideology-driven motivated reasoning. However, this is not a sufficient explanation for less …

Corporate social responsibility and pro‐environmental behavior at workplace: The role of moral reflectiveness, coworker advocacy, and environmental commitment

B Afsar, WA Umrani - Corporate Social Responsibility and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is gaining significance in the business world.
However, scholars have not sufficiently examined the factors that influence the small …