Professors' study disputes long-standing claim conservatives are more rigid thinkers

Professors' study disputes long-standing claim conservatives are more rigid thinkers

A group of professors from several universities recently published a study challenging the long-standing claim in psychology that conservatives are less likely to change their beliefs. The study, titled "An adversarial collaboration on the rigidity-of-the-right" and published in the journal Political Psychology, argues that much of the previous scientific literature on the subject is "discordant." It found that broad claims about strong associat…