ArticleQuarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)2016
The politics of insight.
Article in Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- A Systematic Review of Creativity-Related Studies Applying the Remote Associates Test From 2000 to 2019.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Exploring Meta-Reasoning Propositional Confidence in Conspiratorial Beliefs and Socio-Cognitive Polarization.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
- Does social rigidity predict cognitive rigidity? Profiles of socio-cognitive polarization.Psychological research · 2023Article
- Not Getting Vaccinated? It Is a Matter of Problem-Solving Abilities and Socio-Cognitive Polarization.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Insight Problem Solving Ability Predicts Reduced Susceptibility to Fake News, Bullshit, and Overclaiming.Thinking & reasoning · 2023Article
- The Effect of Dopaminergic Replacement Therapy on Creative Thinking and Insight Problem-Solving in Parkinson's Disease Patients.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Oculometric signature of switch into awareness? Pupil size predicts sudden insight whereas microsaccades predict problem-solving via analysis.NeuroImage · 2020Article
- The relation between state and trait risk taking and problem-solving.Psychological research · 2020Article
- Validation of the Italian Remote Associate Test.The Journal of creative behavior · 2020Article
- TDCS to the right anterior temporal lobe facilitates insight problem-solving.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Expectation Violation in Political Decision Making: A Psychological Case Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Previous studies showed that liberals and conservatives differ in cognitive style. Liberals are more flexible, and tolerant of complexity and novelty, whereas conservatives are more rigid, are more resistant to change, and prefer clear answers. We administered a set of compound remote associate problems, a task extensively used to differentiate problem-solving styles (via insight or analysis). Using this task, several researches have proven that self-reports, which differentiate between insight and analytic problem-solving, are reliable and are associated with two different neural circuits. In our research we found that participants self-identifying with distinct political orientations demonstrated differences in problem-solving strategy. Liberals solved significantly more problems via insight instead of in a step-by-step analytic fashion. Our findings extend previous observations that self-identified political orientations reflect differences in cognitive styles. More specifically, we show that type of political orientation is associated with problem-solving strategy. The data converge with previous neurobehavioural and cognitive studies indicating a link between cognitive style and the psychological mechanisms that mediate political beliefs.
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