Does social rigidity predict cognitive rigidity? Profiles of socio-cognitive polarization.

Autor: Salvi C; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. carola.salvi@austin.utexas.edu.; Department of Psychology and Social Sciences, John Cabot University, Rome, Italy. carola.salvi@austin.utexas.edu., Iannello P; Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy., Cancer A; Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy., Cooper SE; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA., McClay M; Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA., Dunsmoor JE; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA., Antonietti A; Department of Psychology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Psychological research [Psychol Res] 2023 Nov; Vol. 87 (8), pp. 2533-2547. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 06.
DOI: 10.1007/s00426-023-01832-w
Abstrakt: Recent research has proposed a relationship between rigid political ideologies and underlying 'cognitive styles'. However, there remain discrepancies in how both social and cognitive rigidity are defined and measured. Problem-solving, or the ability to generate novel ideas by exploring unusual reasoning paths and challenging rigid perspectives around us, is often used to operationalize cognitive flexibility. Thus, we hypothesized a relation between forms of social rigidity, including Socio-cognitive polarization (i.e., a factor capturing conservative political ideology, absolutism/intolerance of ambiguity, and xenophobia), bullshit receptivity (i.e., overestimating pseudo-profound statements), overclaiming (tendency to self-enhance), and cognitive rigidity (i.e., problem-solving). Our results showed differences in performance on problem-solving tasks between four latent profiles of social rigidity identified in our sample. Specifically, those low in socio-cognitive polarization, bullshit, and overclaiming (i.e., less rigid) performed the best on problem-solving. Thus, we conclude that social and cognitive rigidity may share an underlying socio-cognitive construct, wherein those who are more socially rigid are also more likely to be also cognitively rigid when processing non-social information.
(© 2023. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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