Psychological Features of Extreme Political Ideologies

These include:

#CognitiveSimplicity
#intolerance
#overconfidence
#PsychologicalDistress

These psychological dynamics are also easy to manipulate.

Most humans abhor violence. Only desperate & sociopathic humans incite or engage in violence.

Trump is too much of a #Coward to engage in violence to satisfy his needs. See J6 as an example of his cowardice.

The small psychopath needs to be in jail.

#immoral #Lunatic

#dunningkruger congressman strikes again.

I remain stunned that the people elected to make laws fails to understand the legal system or how laws works

#incompetence #Embarrassing

A very academic article on the nature and function of mainly negative moral emotions, for those interested.

#indignation #anger #outrage #Guilt #purity #shame #emotions #Empathy #cooperation #interdependence

Humans evolved to be more caring and adhere to norms.

While we are primates who like fancy toys & wear clothes, we are have a strong tendency toward helping and cooperation.

#ChildDevelopment #emotions #helping #prosocial

Huge news: Trump's attorney must testify in obstruction documents case.

Very similar, if not the same, with the Manafort case.

Another bad news day for #Trump

#TrumpIsGuilty #laws #Accountability #DOJ

Womp womp.

Trump's #Misogyny will be on full display thanks to this ruling. Trump has no #moral compass.
#Accountability #winning #laws #CivilSuit #TrumpIsLosing

#MoralReframing helps with progressive public policies, especially to help align with more conservative values and beliefs

#inequality #MoralFoundations #narratives #partisanship #prejudice

For Christmas, we know what day it is, but not what the present is.

For #Arrestmas , we know the present, we just don't know what day it is.

#trumpwillbearrested

Politics and humor, kind of....

Group cohesion & threat help promote science denialism.

#climatechange #groups #belongingness #IntegratedThreatTheory #IntergroupAnxiety #ScientificConsensus

I’ve said it once, and I’ll say it a thousand times: Encouraging kids to be who they are is suicide prevention.

In case you missed it, Smartmatic has a $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox and other entities. Recently cleared a hurdle to move forward.

#Defamation #laws #Liars #Accountability #ethics #morality #beliefs #liability

The GOP explaining #SVBCrisis occurred because of "woke policies" is just a ploy to move away from talking about regulations.

Consultants have no power. Regulations do.

Read first 4 paragraphs to show how SVB had been warned.

https://www.ft.com/content...

Interesting data

First: 42% of the US public is white and Christian (WC).

2nd: 71% of the GOP is WC.

3rd: Only 24% of Democrats are WC

If you subscribe to #MoralFoundationsTheory , the "purity" dynamic will continue to shrink GOP base & move toward appeals to authoritariansim

Link below

Gamblers overestimate gains, underestimate #loss & #harm .

#attention #decisionmaking #GainFrame #Gambling #LossAversion #framing #RiskAssessment

Men, particularly white men, sure have a lot to say and legislate about pregnancies… while having nothing to say or legislate about, I dunno, who’s responsible for the sperm. 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟

Are there ZERO ETHICS with everyone around Trump?

Conflict of interest anyone? It's ethics 101.

How can Tacopina be so cognitively impaired, compromised, or unethical?

What is his hourly rate? Absolutely not worth it.

#unethical #ConflictOfInterest #illegal #TrumpIsGuilty

These gifts are valued at $300,000.

Uncovering all the abuses from the Trump Administration will take many more years.

#Corruption #TrumpIsACriminal

Arrest warrant issued for Putin.

#RussiaIsATerroristState

Trump is next.

The Dems need to use this, because Trump, MAGA, & GOP love Putin, as they were handing out Russian flags at CPAC.

Children learn rather strict & narrow #norms by rational means (tribal #values not needed, but can be influential)

#cognition #Development #SocialLearning #StatisticalLearning #morality

An important reminder: Psychologists are humans with families, value systems, emotions, beliefs, & shortcomings.

#beinghuman #psychologist #psychotherapy #selfcare #transparency

"There appears to have been some awareness at Trump Media that the first $2m (FROM RUSSIA) was to come through because Trump’s eldest son Don Jr, who joined the board with Trump ally Kash Patel and former Republican turned Trump Media chief executive Devin Nunes"

#RussianAgents #Crooks #greed

#Bikeshedding bias may occur in psychotherapy when the focus is on trivial issues rather than therapeutic issues. There is a difference between bonding & bikeshedding.

#Bias #LawOfLeastEffort

There is a season for everything, and I'm guessing winter solstice

#RIPTruthSocial
#ETTD

Rule 1 of cults: You don't know you are a cult, because you have been influenced and/or recruited due to a variety of factors.

Cults can be deadly when they transfer erroneous information to their followers.

First, it was male convicts conscripted into the Russian war machine. That did not work out so well.

New thought: Let's conscript female prisoners!!

Clearly, the war is not going well for Putin.

#SlavaUkraïni

A capitulation that humans may become obsolete.

#artificialintelligence #creativity #data #evolution #knowledge #thinking #humanity #values

Pretty simple info graphic to help boil down complex issues

Social psychologists and others worried about our country, we need to develop better voter engagement and voter motivation tools. In PA, we have been able to increase younger voter participation.

#ImplicitBias compounds across multiple categories asymmetrically, with gender as the primary target in this research

#intersectionality #SocialCognition #biases