The University of California at Santa Barbara hosted a conference of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology at Palm Springs, Calif. Several highly provocative psychological studies about the nature of political belief were presented.
Several interesting conclusions were made by researchers. One was that people are often not aware of the role their own biases and opinions had on their beliefs, so when evidence was given to them that challenged their support for certain politicians many quickly discounted that evidence. This was true even when they easily accepted similar evidence attacking politicians they did not like.
Also, one study showed that Republicans consistently had stronger anti-Black biases than did Democrats and it showed up in their voting patterns.
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