{"id":958,"date":"2014-01-15T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-15T21:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/01\/are-liberals-too-special-to-go-to-church.html"},"modified":"2014-01-15T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T21:49:00","slug":"are-liberals-too-special-to-go-to-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2014\/01\/are-liberals-too-special-to-go-to-church.html","title":{"rendered":"Are Liberals Too “Special” to Go to Church?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
New research from psychologists from the New York University suggests that the desire to feel unique can undermine consensus, cohesion, and mobilization\u2014at least in political contexts.<\/span><\/div>\n
My hunch is that this may extend to religious contexts as well.<\/span><\/div>\n
Chadly Stern and colleagues reported in the journal\u00a0Psychological Science<\/em><\/a>\u00a0in November 2103 on the findings of a study on \u201ctruly false uniqueness\u201d and \u201ctruly false consensus\u201d among political liberals, moderates, and conservatives.<\/span><\/div>\n
The study looked at two things. First, the researchers considered the degree to which participants over- or underestimated their sense that their beliefs were the same as those of others in the same political grouping (liberal, moderate, conservative). Second, the team measured the degree to which participants in the study were motivated by a desire to feel unique versus a desire to feel the same as others in their group.<\/span><\/div>\n
Overall, Stern, et al found that \u201cliberals underestimated their similarity to other liberals, whereas moderates and conservatives overestimated their similarity to other moderates and conservatives.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n
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