One subset of conservatives expressed the greatest tendency to promote false news stories. Here’s what it means for the fight against misinformation.

This is a little old, but only just heard of this term of “low-conscientiousness conservatives” from YouTuber Leeja Miller.

“In newly published research, we found that it’s not conservatives in general who tend to promote false information, but rather a smaller subset of them who also share two psychological traits: low levels of conscientiousness and an appetite for chaos.”

  • Franzia@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I don’t like this at all. It’s got psychoanalysis, and it just sounds smug. Dors this sort of thing work? If I call liberals lazy will they become marxists? I fuckin doubt it. … unless? nah.

  • Boozilla@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I appreciate them attempting to be scientific in a very messy space. But polling and surveys are notoriously unreliable for quite a few years now. There’s many reasons for this, but one is pretty simple: people lie. Everyone is trying to play shitty little manipulation games on each other. It’s a post-truth world, unfortunately.