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Sheehy-Skeffington, Jennifer. "Radical political beliefs: the effects of perceived inconsistency in the defence of revolutionary socialism." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Classical Chinese Garden, Portland, Oregon USA, Jul 04, 2007 <Not Available>. 2010-01-24 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p204489_index.html>

Sheehy-Skeffington, J. , 2007-07-04 "Radical political beliefs: the effects of perceived inconsistency in the defence of revolutionary socialism." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Classical Chinese Garden, Portland, Oregon USA Online <PDF>. 2010-01-24 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p204489_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Political psychology has studied mass political beliefs largely in terms of the individual differences found to accompany adherents of culturally deviant beliefs (Sidanius, 1985, 1988) or of a set of mutual conflicting beliefs (Tetlock, 1986, 2004). Yet to be explored are the consequences for the individual of the perception of incongruity in beliefs: either the incongruity between one's own beliefs and those dominant in one's cultural context, or between two or more inconsistent beliefs held by the same individual. An empirical study was designed to observe the implications of the experience of such inconsistency in the case of adherents of revolutionary socialist beliefs. Utilising the premises that 1) political beliefs are deemed "radical" if they go against "culturally mainstream" beliefs, and 2) the latter mainstream beliefs are partly based on assumptions about human nature which are held by all individuals in any socio-cultural context, it is claimed that adherents of radical political beliefs hold at least two sets of beliefs, which are implicitly consistent to a certain degree. Novel methodological tools, designed to detect and make salient such inconsistencies, lead to the observation of strategies for responding to perceived inconsistency, which can be analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Political psychological models are evaluated in the light of the findings, alongside a potential framework relating to the interaction between cognition and culture. An argument is made for the expansion of the current study of political beliefs, in a manner which takes unto account current research in social psychology, and yet is sensitive to both cognitive and discursive approaches.

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