Partisan ideological attitudes: Liberals are tolerant; the intelligent are intolerant.
2020/07/30 by Yoav Ganzach, Yaacov Schul · 41 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #Attitude change #Cultural Differences and Values #Ideology #Law #Political science #Politics #Psychology #Social and Intergroup Psychology #Social psychology #Sociopolitical Dynamics in Russia
paper · doi:10.1037/pspi0000324
published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 120(6), 1551-1566 (American Psychological Association)
openalex publication_date 2020/07/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Abstract
In this article we examine intolerance toward ideological outgroups, conceptualized as the negativity of the attitudes of liberals and conservatives toward their ideological outgroup. We show that conservatives are more ideologically intolerant than liberals and that the more intelligent are more ideologically intolerant than the less intelligent. We also show that the differences between liberals and conservatives and the differences between the more and less intelligent depend on ideological extremity: They are larger for extreme than for moderate ideologists. The implication of these results to questions regarding the relationship between intelligence and ideological intolerance and regarding the relationship between ideology and prejudice are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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