Study shows Republicans are more diverse.

I couldn't find anything on it at all so if you got a link that would be great. However I did find this in America:

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/new-study-reveals-democrats-and-republicans-vastly-underestimate-diversity-each-others-views


However I did type your study into chat gpt and found:

1. The study’s framing and audience matters
The visuals (cluster heatmaps) were interpreted as representing ideological coherence vs. dispersion but it’s not a global psychological fact; it's a statistical pattern in survey data, across specific issues.

It reflects network modeling of opinions—not a universal measurement of cognitive diversity or flexibility

2. “Diversity of thought” is hard to define

Psychological research distinguishes between ideological conformity (e.g., groupthink), moral complexity, epistemic openness, and intragroup disagreement.

Other large reviews suggest that both liberals and conservatives are more similar than different in many psychological domains, with nuanced differences in motivation, cognition, and affect

3. Forward and backward bias in interpretation

Online commentary interpreting the study—especially from ideologically aligned blogs or commentators—often exaggerates the findings to support broader claims about intellectual diversity or laziness on one side.

Broader literature shows ideological clustering on both ends

Research on group polarization, echo chambers, and ideological homophily shows that both left and right can exhibit strong internal agreement and resistance to dissent, depending on issue

Scholars like Jonathan Haidt have pointed to a lack of political diversity within academic social psychology itself, especially on the left, which may distort perspective

This study is one data point, interesting for modeling opinion clusters.

It shows that, on certain issues, self-identified right-wing individuals displayed a broader spread of responses than left-wing individuals in that sample.

But it does not show that conservatives are generally more ideologically flexible, nor that liberals lack independent thought at scale.

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Dunno if that's your study couldn't find nothing though chatgpt seems to have found something similar.

Part of it is how one defines “left and right”, because that is based upon one’s views. Are they self identifying?

That said, from personal experience where I live I don’t disagree. The republican voters I meet cover a wider range of views than the democrats I meet.

They asked participants to rank their opinions on eight questions regarding “hot-button topics such as abortion, immigration, gun control, and gay marriage” on a 5-point scale. They concluded the “cluster reflecting Democrat belief-system almost exclusively contained extreme attitudes as indicated by strong disagreement with each of the eight items. Conversely, the cluster reflecting the Republican belief-system contained a wider range of attitude responses ranging from mild disagreement to maximum agreement.”

To me, this shows that Republicans are far more open minded.

Interesting study, to say the least. But I'm not sure diversity on these particular topics really means Republicans are more "open minded." You need to consider the topics chosen and not chosen, as well as what was being studied, identification.

Liberals pride themselves on being a bastion of diversity. As it turns out, they’re rather uniform in this belief.

“Democrats (more than Republicans) tightly centre their belief-system around a set of positions at the extremes of these particular items, implying that people who deviate from these positions are likely to be considered as outgroup members,” according to a study from the British Journal of Social Psychology making the rounds on social media. “It is possible that holding extreme (and thus unnegotiable) attitudes on important social-political issues has become increasingly identity defining for Democrats,” the authors speculate.

After looking at your post again, a british study. Looking at the political right and left.
Not republicans.
European right and left are not the same.

That's very interesting. I'll have to look for the article.

Conservative here. I think this is true. A lot of immigrants I know who come to America join the Republican party. It's wild because you'd think they'd gravitate to the Democrat side of the spectrum, but they're more protectionist than liberal

yes that makes sence
in one way, a "Social Conservative" is not seeking radical changes
a political conservative OR Liberal
is gunning for big changes

"Diverges widely in thought"
Indeed. It isn't such a positive thing. The right diverges from factual information. That divergence spawns the conspiracy theories you all so revel in.

https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/bjso.12665

I believe this is the whole study if anyone is interested.

Makes sense. Democrats are brainwashed drones who "think" whatever CNN and MSNBC tell them to. There is no reasoning or thinking going on. They have no proof to back up anything they say, they just repeat buzzwords and propaganda.
Republicans look at the facts, often from numerous sources, and make informed decisions about where they stand on the issues. They may not all agree, but not being programmed for violence as the Democrats are, they don't feel the need to kill each other over it.

“Diversity” is not the classical liberal’s organizing principle. “Equality” is. See: inalienable rights. The modern liberal goes a step further, demanding not just natural rights, but equality of outcome. Differences between individuals – of the cognitive, ideological, racial, or sexual variety – are impediments to that end. When the world is boiled down into a homogenous gray goo, true equality will be had at last.

Interesting. I wonder what a US study would say, both in 2023, and after another two years of Trumpism.

Many of these studies are poorly done and mean whatever the interpreter wants them to mean. For example it could be interpreted to mean: There are many ways to be in the wrong and many foolish views but there are less ways to be intelligent and correct.

Anyone who supports Trump is exactly the same.

If only they weren’t so absolute..
join us or be destroyed.. no opposing opinions allowed!

Yeah, but even Calvin Candie had Stephen, so...

Exactly. As folks go further left the more lemming like they become. The left doesn’t allow individual thought. It demands adherence of the elite generated groupthink.