Aleksander Ksiazkiewicz

TL;DR: For instance, this article found evidence that the overlap between the religious and the political in the American context may in part be due to underlying principles regarding how to understand and organize society and that these principles may be adopted to satisfy biologically-influenced psychological needs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the relationship between cognitive style (the need for cognition, the need for cognitive closure) and various measures of political attitudes (issue based ideology, identity-based ideology, social ideology, economic ideology, authoritarianism, and egalitarianism).

TL;DR: The role of implicit processes in outcomes commonly studied by political scientists deserves more attention as discussed by the authors, and the authors of this symposium aim to showcase the diverse set of subject areas within political science to which dual-process models have been and can be applied.

TL;DR: This article examined implicit candidate-trait associations for the first time using data from a three-wave online panel conducted in the last month of the 2012 U.S. presidential election and found that implicit associations of warmth and competence with the candidates predict explicit candidate evaluations, economic evaluations, and vote choice.

TL;DR: The authors found that retrospective evaluations exerted a stronger influence on vote choice in the referendum (vs. the choice) frame; racial animosity strongly predicted economic evaluations for knowledgeable Republicans who were led to believe that positive economic developments were the result of actions taken by the Obama administration; and information-seeking bias is a contingent phenomenon, depending jointly on the opportunity and motivation to selectively tune in to congenial information.