Researchers Say There’s Something Psychologically Strange About Trump Voters

Neuroscience and brain science are related.

What makes a Trump voter want to vote? Is it policy, their leader's charisma, or something else entirely?

Two researchers at the University of North Carolina and the University of Missouri set out to answer that by measuring candidate support, cognitive performance and political ideology among 831 US-based participants.

The two authors wrote in their study that conservatism is defined by two dimensions: resistance to change and opposition to equality. Liberalism is defined by the opposite. People who are sensitive to threat and uncertainty in the environment are more likely to have other motives. People who are predispose to political conservatism.

There is a debate in psychology about whether liberals and conservatives are similar or different, and part of the study was to resolve it. The author of the study told the publication that they found support for the hypothesis.

The supporters of Democratic candidates were similar to those of more moderate Democratic candidates and not the same as those of Trump supporters, according to the author. The trend was particularly strong for warmth.

In 2020, participants in the study were asked if they would vote for Donald Trump or one of the Democratic primary candidates. They also completed psychological assessments of cognitive rigidity, openness to experience, active open-minded thinking, dogmatism, and preference for one right answer.

The study supports the hypothesis that conservatives are more cold.

The warmth of the people on the left and right may be related to political ideology. Those on the extreme ends are more rigid, and those in the middle are less rigid, according to the psychologist.

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