Journal article
Stepping Outside the Echo Chamber: Is Intellectual Humility Associated With Less Political Myside Bias?
Personality & social psychology bulletin, Vol.48(1), pp.150-164
01/01/2022
DOI: 10.1177/0146167221997619
PMID: 33719720
Abstract
In recent years, an upsurge of polarization has been a salient feature of political discourse in America. A small but growing body of research has examined the potential relevance of intellectual humility (IH) to political polarization. In the present investigation, we extend this work to political myside bias, testing the hypothesis that IH is associated with less bias in two community samples (N-1 = 498; N-2 = 477). In line with our expectations, measures of IH were negatively correlated with political myside bias across paradigms, political topics, and samples. These relations were robust to controlling for humility. We also examined ideological asymmetries in the relations between IH and political myside bias, finding that IH-bias relations were statistically equivalent in members of the political left and right. Notwithstanding important limitations and caveats, these data establish IH as one of a small handful psychological features known to predict less political myside bias.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Stepping Outside the Echo Chamber: Is Intellectual Humility Associated With Less Political Myside Bias?
- Creators
- Shauna M. Bowes - Emory UniversityThomas H. Costello - Emory UniversityCaroline Lee - Emory UniversityStacey McElroy-Heltzel - University of IowaDon E. Davis - Georgia State UniversityScott O. Lilienfeld - Emory University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Personality & social psychology bulletin, Vol.48(1), pp.150-164
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- DOI
- 10.1177/0146167221997619
- PMID
- 33719720
- ISSN
- 0146-1672
- eISSN
- 1552-7433
- Number of pages
- 15
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2022
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9984371107102771
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