ArticlePersonality & social psychology bulletin2023
People See Political Opponents as More Stupid Than Evil.
Article in Personality & social psychology bulletin, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
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Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Morally offensive scientific findings activate cognitive chicanery.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Political (Meta-)Dehumanization in Mental Representations: Divergent Emphases in the Minds of Liberals Versus Conservatives.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2024Article
- People believe political opponents accept blatant moral wrongs, fueling partisan divides.PNAS nexus · 2024Article
- Social media feedback and extreme opinion expression.PloS one · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Affective polarization is a rising threat to political discourse and democracy. Public figures have expressed that "conservatives think liberals are stupid, and liberals think conservatives are evil." However, four studies (
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Registered trials
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