Speech repression and outrage from orthodox activists as attempts at facilitating mobilization and gaining status among allies DOI Open Access
Antoine Marie, Michael Bang Petersen

Published: May 23, 2023

Moral motivations to protect mobilizing, often threat-based, narratives from contestation by repressing speech is a recurrent feature of many political and religious movements. Although Pinsof et al. give them little attention, we think that identifying the social goals pursued orthodox mindsets are crucial additions Alliance theory ideology. In particular, argued repression may emerge attempts at (i) maintaining mobilization followers for mutually beneficial causes in polarized conflict-ridden times, (ii) signal devotion one’s allies value gain status—the latter goal being left out al.’s as currently formulated.

Language: Английский

Teaching epistemic integrity to promote reliable scientific communication DOI Creative Commons
Aurélien Allard, Christine Clavien

Frontiers in Psychology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15

Published: April 5, 2024

In an age of mass communication, citizens need to learn how detect and transmit reliable scientific information. This is exacerbated by the transmission news through social media, where any individual has potential reach thousands other users. this article, we argue that fighting uncontrolled unreliable information requires improved training in broad epistemic integrity. subcategory research integrity relevant students all disciplines, often overlooked courses, contrast topics such as fraud, plagiarism, collaboration respect for study subjects. Teaching involves skills (such metacognitive competences, capacity use helpful heuristics, basic statistical methodological principles) values love truth, intellectual humility, responsibility). We topic should be addressed secondary school, later constitute a fundamental component university curriculum.

Language: Английский

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Intellectual Virtue Signaling DOI
Neil Levy

American Philosophical Quarterly, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 60(3), P. 311 - 324

Published: July 1, 2023

Abstract Discussions of virtue signaling to date have focused exclusively on the moral virtues. This article focuses intellectual signaling: status-seeking advertising supposed Intellectual takes distinctive forms. It is also far more likely be harmful than signaling, because it distracts attention from genuine expertise and gives contrarian opinions an undue prominence in public debate. The provides a heuristic by which identify possible instances signaling. When people with no relevant rapidly move offer their wide range topics as soon these become fashionable or newsworthy, especially when are contrarian, we should suspect them

Language: Английский

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The cognitive foundations of ideological orthodoxy DOI Open Access
Antoine Marie, Michael Bang Petersen

Published: March 10, 2023

Political and religious movements often bind around shared mobilizing narratives.In their most devoted activists, this triggers moral motivations to affirm protect the narrative from being argumentatively challenged (i.e., orthodox mindsets), with free expression nuance as primary casualties. The ideological narratives are threat-based, denouncing an evil or villains encroaching on a sacred value, such national grandeur, faith, class, racial, gender equality. Their protection repressive reactions ranging expressions of outrage public shaming social media “deplatforming” controversial speakers censorship imprisonment dissidents. Orthodox mindsets puzzling because disproportionate righteousness which they try cherished narratives. We suspect that may derive three main evolved cognitive foundations. First, over-sensitive dispositions detect threat, human outgroups in particular. Second, mobilize ingroup members for cooperative benefits against rival groups by emphasizing goals relevant everyone. Third, signaling personal devotion causes one’s allies value accrue prestige within ingroup. In line arguments about self-deception, strategies mobilization be likely meet functions when displayed activists sincerely committed movement’s tenets.

Language: Английский

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Political conspiracy theories as tools for mobilization and signaling DOI Open Access
Antoine Marie, Michael Bang Petersen

Published: Aug. 8, 2022

Political conspiracist communities emerge and bind around hard-to-falsify narratives about political opponents or elites convening to secretly exploit the public in contexts of perceived conflict. While appear descriptive, we propose that their content as well cognitive systems regulating endorsement dissemination may have co-evolved, at least part, reach coalitional goals: To drive allies’ attention social threat increase commitment coordination for collective action, signal devotion gain within-group status. Those evolutionary functions be best fulfilled if individuals endorse conspiratorial narrative sincerely.

Language: Английский

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Speech repression and outrage from orthodox activists as attempts at facilitating mobilization and gaining status among allies DOI Open Access
Antoine Marie, Michael Bang Petersen

Published: May 23, 2023

Moral motivations to protect mobilizing, often threat-based, narratives from contestation by repressing speech is a recurrent feature of many political and religious movements. Although Pinsof et al. give them little attention, we think that identifying the social goals pursued orthodox mindsets are crucial additions Alliance theory ideology. In particular, argued repression may emerge attempts at (i) maintaining mobilization followers for mutually beneficial causes in polarized conflict-ridden times, (ii) signal devotion one’s allies value gain status—the latter goal being left out al.’s as currently formulated.

Language: Английский

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