Both‐sideology endangers democracy and social science

JT Jost - Journal of Social Issues, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In social psychology these days it is commonplace to read or hear that liberal‐leftists and
conservative‐rightists are every bit as “moral”; prejudiced and intolerant; susceptible to …

The paradoxical brain: paradoxes impact conflict perspectives through increased neural alignment

J Levy, A Kluge, B Hameiri, K Lankinen… - Cerebral …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Mental perspectives can sometimes be changed by psychological interventions. For
instance, when applied in the context of intergroup conflicts, interventions, such as the …

Supportive but biased: Perceptual neural intergroup bias is sensitive to minor reservations about supporting outgroup immigration

A Kluge, N Zebarjadi, M Tassinari, FH Lin… - Neuropsychologia, 2025 - Elsevier
While decreasing negative attitudes against outgroups are often reported by individuals
themselves, biased behaviour prevails. This gap between words and actions may stem from …

[HTML][HTML] Extreme ingroup and outgroup perspectives counter-intuitively impact intergroup polarisation at the level of neural oscillations

A Kluge, J Levy - Cortex, 2025 - Elsevier
A powerful example of affective polarisation occurred between vaccine-supporters and-
opposers when vaccinations were implemented to counter the recent global pandemic. In …

Ideological symmetry in out-group bias: a neuroimaging study in the context of vaccine hesitancy

A Kluge, J Levy - Frontiers in Social Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
One of the most contentious debates in political psychology relates to the existence of
ideological (a) symmetry in out-group bias. Recent neuroimaging and psychological studies …

Neural oscillations underlying the expression and modulation of intergroup bias

A Kluge - 2024 - aaltodoc.aalto.fi
Humans can be distinguished from robots by their ability to select all images containing a
car regardless of the make, model, or picture angle. This basic human function, effortlessly …

Neural political polarization in Finland

N Somila - 2024 - aaltodoc.aalto.fi
Political polarization refers to the increasing ideological and emotional differences between
political groups. Traditional methods to measure political polarization, such as self-reported …