Navigating the pandemic emergency: The role of socio-cognitive polarization in complex situations|ORIENTARSI DURANTE L’EMERGENZA PANDEMICA Il ruolo della polarizzazione socio-cognitiva nelle situazioni complesse

2024

There are numerous conditions and ways through which rigidity can manifest in people’s reasoning. Our review aims to focus on the construct of socio-cognitive polarization, which encompasses both cognitive and social rigidity and its relationship with performance measures of cognitive rigidity as problem-solving. Here we will synthesize a recent wave of research suggesting that susceptibility to extreme political ideology is sculpted by an individual’s cognitively-rooted reasoning architecture that goes above and beyond voting decisions. Foremost we highlight a novel approach to measuring flexibility using content-free problem-solving tasks in contrast to self-report measures and qualitative questionnaires. Further, the results of a series of studies conducted in the last years suggest that the boundaries of rigidity extend well beyond voting decisions to include aspects of rigidity such as conservatism and xenophobia.

socio-cognitive polarization; cognitive flexibility; problem-solving; xenofobia; absolutistic thinking; political orientation; Settore M-PSI/01 - PSICOLOGIA GENERALE; info:eu-repo/semantics/article

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Italian

SYC oai:publicatt.unicatt.it:10807/288796
10.1422/113330
info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/scopus/2-s2.0-85201852584
1479531171

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