Great articles and study findings have been published around this year’s political season. Most recently, this article Pacific Standard about stereotypes being cultivated by both liberals and conservatives.
“When it comes to our actual beliefs, American liberals and conservatives are less polarized than we realize. . . . “There are real moral differences between liberals and conservatives,” the researchers write, “but people across the political spectrum exaggerate the magnitude of these differences, and in so doing create opposing moral stereotypes that are shared by all.”
This article was based on the abstract and research published 12/12/12 at PLOS One. My favorite take-aways . . .
“Across the political spectrum, moral stereotypes about “typical” liberals and conservatives correctly reflected the direction of actual differences in foundation endorsement but exaggerated the magnitude of these differences. . . .Both liberals and conservatives exaggerated the ideological extremity of moral concerns for the ingroup as well as the outgroup. Liberals were least accurate about both groups.”
And what makes us so different in the first place besides the “other” side being completely out of their minds, brainwashed by media, dogma, etc.? Check out this Cool Article about our “competing ethical universes.”