A recent article from Baron and Jost (2019) in Perspectives in Psychological Science 14(2):
"A
large number of other studies have revealed significant
ideological asymmetries with respect to subjective and objective
measures of (domain-general) cognitive style variables. As illustrated
in Figure 1, liberals generally score higher than conservatives on
measures of integrative complexity, cognitive reflection, need for
cognition, and uncertainty tolerance, whereas conservatives score
higher than liberals on measures of personal needs for order
and structure, cognitive closure, intolerance of ambiguity,
cognitive or perceptual rigidity, and dogmatism. A study by Zmigrod,
Rentfrow, and Robbins (2018) demonstrated, furthermore, that
conservatives performed worse than liberals on two objective (and
entirely non-political) tests of cognitive flexibility: the
Wisconsin Card Sorting Test and the Remote Associates Test.There is
also a good deal of evidence that liberals perform better than
conservatives on objective tests of cognitive ability and intelligence.
Conservatives, on the other hand, appear to be more gullible and
less interested in scientific ways of knowing. They also score higher
than liberals on measures of self-deception. Social scientists are
increasingly finding that conservatives are more likely than liberals to
spread “fake news,” political misinformation, and conspiracy theories
throughout their online social networks."
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