A 2023 study in the British Journal of Social Psychology has recently gone viral, confirming objectively what critical thinkers in the previous decade had already deduced: that the political right “diverges widely” in thought, whereas the political left “coalesces around a very narrow set of opinion.”
On Monday, June 23, Rasmussen’s Mark Mitchell, whose record of predictive accuracy as a pollster stands alone among all pundits in the previous American decade, posted a highlight from the viral British Journal of Social Psychology study.
The most widely circulated response to Mitchell’s post linked the full fifteen page study from the British Journal of Social Psychology, which published five different charts, or “heatmaps,” all confirming, based on network modeling data, the same hypothesis that the researchers tendered: that, overwhelmingly, leftists tend to engage in “groupthink,” while members of the political right tend to think independently.
The psychological study posited that personal attitudes shape political identities. The researchers formed clusters of left-wing participants and right-wing participants within the study. Then, the researchers surveyed the extreme degree to which the participants held their views on key political issues.
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