Matt Motyl

TL;DR: In this article, the extent to which culture predicts belief in conspiracy theories (CT) was investigated, based on a situated cultural cognition perspective, using Hofstede's model of cultural values, and three nation-level analyses of data from 25,19 and 18 countries using different measures of CT beliefs revealed positive associations between Masculinity, Collectivism and CT beliefs.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assessed whether infrahumanizing violence by emphasizing its similarities to animal aggression would lead to reduced support for war, especially when mortality is salient, and found that participants high in right-wing authoritarianism were more supportive of military action against outgroups.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present empirical evidence demonstrating that reminders of mortality increase efforts to see the self and in-groups as more uniquely human and, as an ironic consequence of defensive efforts to rid the self of any connection to animal nature, people are sometimes stripped of their human nature.

TL;DR: This paper showed that ideological beliefs impair people's ability to recognize logi... beliefs shape how people interpret information and may impair how people engage in logical reasoning, which may impair their ability to reason about logical information.

TL;DR: It is proposed that political extremists use more negative language than moderates, and it is found that liberal extremists’ language was more negative than that of conservative extremists.