Lund University, Sweden.
Linköping University, Sweden.
Pers Soc Psychol Bull. 2019 Oct;45(10):1440-1454. doi: 10.1177/0146167219830415. Epub 2019 Mar 18.
This research systematically mapped the relationship between political ideology and receptivity to pseudo-profound bullshit-that is, obscure sentences constructed to impress others rather than convey truth. Among Swedish adults ( = 985), bullshit receptivity was (a) robustly positively associated with socially conservative (vs. liberal) self-placement, resistance to change, and particularly binding moral intuitions (loyalty, authority, purity); (b) associated with centrism on preference for equality and even leftism (when controlling for other aspects of ideology) on economic ideology self-placement; and (c) lowest among right-of-center social liberal voters and highest among left-wing green voters. Most of the results held up when we controlled for the perceived profundity of genuine aphorisms, cognitive reflection, numeracy, information processing bias, gender, age, education, religiosity, and spirituality. The results are supportive of theoretical accounts that posit ideological asymmetries in cognitive orientation, while also pointing to the existence of bullshit receptivity among both right- and left-wingers.
本研究系统地绘制了政治意识形态与接受伪深奥胡话之间的关系——即，构建用来给他人留下深刻印象而非传达真理的模糊句子。在瑞典成年人中（n = 985），胡话接受度与社会保守主义（与自由派相比）、抵制变革以及特别强烈的道德直觉（忠诚、权威、纯洁）呈显著正相关；与平等偏好的中间派（在控制其他意识形态方面）和经济意识形态自我定位的左派甚至左倾相关；在右翼社会自由派选民中最低，在左翼绿党选民中最高。当我们控制了真正格言的深奥感知、认知反射、计算能力、信息处理偏差、性别、年龄、教育、宗教信仰和灵性时，大部分结果仍然成立。这些结果支持了假设认知取向存在意识形态不对称的理论观点，同时也表明胡话接受度存在于右翼和左翼人士中。
