Study shows Republicans are more diverse.

Study: ‘More Diversity of Thought on the Political Right Than on the Political Left’ – And It’s Not Even Close

British Journal of Social Psychology A 2023 study in the British Journal of Social Psychology has recently gone viral, co...

A 2023 study in the British Journal of Social Psychology has recently gone viral, confirming objectively what critical thinkers in the previous decade had already deduced: that the political right “diverges widely” in thought, whereas the political left “coalesces around a very narrow set of opinion.”[/b]

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DogMan · 61-69, M

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.