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How ideological migration geographically segregates groups by Motyl, Matt, Iyer, Ravi, Oishi, Shigehiro, Trawalter, Sophie, Nosek, Brian A.

“…Here, we advance the ideological migration hypothesis — individuals choose to live in communities with ideologies similar to their own to satisfy their need to…”
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Extremists on the Left and Right Use Angry, Negative Language by Frimer, Jeremy A., Brandt, Mark J., Melton, Zachary, Motyl, Matt

“…We propose that political extremists use more negative language than moderates. Previous research found that conservatives report feeling happier than liberals…”
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Conservatives report, but liberals display, greater happiness by Wojcik, Sean P., Hovasapian, Arpine, Graham, Jesse, Motyl, Matt, Ditto, Peter H.

“…Research suggesting that political conservatives are happier than political liberals has relied exclusively on self-report measures of subjective well-being…”
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(Ideo)Logical Reasoning: Ideology Impairs Sound Reasoning by Gampa, Anup, Wojcik, Sean P., Motyl, Matt, Nosek, Brian A., Ditto, Peter H.

“…Beliefs shape how people interpret information and may impair how people engage in logical reasoning. In three studies, we show how ideological beliefs impair…”
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Could your candidate shoot someone on 5th Avenue and not lose votes? Identifying “lines in the sand” in ingroup candidate transgressions by Howard, Kathryn A., Cervone, Daniel, Motyl, Matt

“…How severely must a political candidate transgress in order to lose votes from supporters? What characteristics motivate people to vote for highly…”
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Age differences in free will and control perceptions across the lifespan and around the world by Chopik, William J., Confer, Joshua A., Motyl, Matt

“…•Free will and control perceptions vary across development and cultures.•Few studies examined cultural variation in age differences in these…”
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The aftermath of destruction: Images of destroyed buildings increase support for war, dogmatism, and death thought accessibility by Vail, Kenneth E., Arndt, Jamie, Motyl, Matt, Pyszczynski, Tom

“…Building on terror management theory, we hypothesized that viewing destroyed buildings would increase death thought accessibility and thereby elicit dogmatic…”
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When animals attack: The effects of mortality salience, infrahumanization of violence, and authoritarianism on support for war by Motyl, Matt, Hart, Joshua, Pyszczynski, Tom

“…Terror management theory (TMT) suggests that people are motivated to elevate themselves above other animals as a way of denying their creatureliness and…”
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Bleeding-Heart Liberals and Hard-Hearted Conservatives: Subtle Political Dehumanization Through Differential Attributions of Human Nature and Human Uniqueness Traits by Crawford, Jarret T., Modri, Sean A., Motyl, Matt

“…This research demonstrated that human nature (HN) and human uniqueness (HU) traits capture the content of Americans’ stereotypes about liberals and…”
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Liberals and conservatives are similarly motivated to avoid exposure to one another's opinions by Frimer, Jeremy A., Skitka, Linda J., Motyl, Matt

“…Ideologically committed people are similarly motivated to avoid ideologically crosscutting information. Although some previous research has found that…”
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"If He Wins, I'm Moving to Canada": Ideological Migration Threats Following the 2012 U.S. Presidential Election by Motyl, Matt

“…Every four years, partisan Americans threaten to migrate to Canada (or some other country) if their preferred candidate loses the Presidential election. This…”
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Compassionate Values and Presidential Politics: Mortality Salience, Compassionate Values, and Support for Barack Obama and John McCain in the 2008 Presidential Election by Vail III, Kenneth E., Arndt, Jamie, Motyl, Matt, Pyszczynski, Tom

“…In line with terror management theory, this research demonstrates that mortality salience motivated increased support for John McCain in the absence of…”
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Scientific Utopia: II. Restructuring Incentives and Practices to Promote Truth Over Publishability by Nosek, Brian A., Spies, Jeffrey R., Motyl, Matt

“…An academic scientist's professional success depends on publishing. Publishing norms emphasize novel, positive results. As such, disciplinary incentives…”
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How Ambient Cues Facilitate Political Segregation by Motyl, Matt, Prims, J. P., Iyer, Ravi

“…People increasingly self-segregate into politically homogeneous communities. How they do this remains unclear. We propose that people use ambient cues…”
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Is Virginia for lovers? Geographic variation in adult attachment orientation by Chopik, William J., Motyl, Matt

“…•People often use relationships to characterize and describe places.•Little is known whether relationships and relational styles vary across geography.•We…”
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Diverse crowds using diverse methods improves the scientific dialectic by Motyl, Matt, Iyer, Ravi

“…In science, diversity is vital to the development of new knowledge. We agree with Duarte et al. that we need more political diversity in social psychology, but…”
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Will the real fundamental difference underlying ideology please stand up? by Motyl, Matt, Iyer, Ravi

“…Negativity bias explains many ideological differences, yet does not explain research such as conservatives' greater life satisfaction. Conservatives live in…”
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Moral Concerns and Policy Attitudes: Investigating the Influence of Elite Rhetoric by Clifford, Scott, Jerit, Jennifer, Rainey, Carlisle, Motyl, Matt

“…A growing body of research documents the crucial role played by moral concerns in the formation of attitudes and a wide range of political behaviors. Yet…”
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Using trait and moral theories to understand belief in pure evil and belief in pure good by Webster, Russell J., Morrone, Nicolette, Motyl, Matt, Iyer, Ravi

“…People differ greatly in their beliefs in pure good (BPG) and beliefs in pure evil (BPE), but little is known about how people develop such beliefs. In two…”
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Social and Economic Ideologies Differentially Predict Prejudice Across the Political Spectrum, but Social Issues Are Most Divisive by Crawford, Jarret T, Brandt, Mark J, Inbar, Yoel, Chambers, John R, Motyl, Matt

“…Liberals and conservatives both express prejudice toward ideologically dissimilar others (Brandt et al., 2014). Previous work on ideological prejudice did not…”
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