Canadian federal elections: Motive profiles and integrative complexity in political speeches and popular media.

Suedfeld, Peter; Bluck, Susan; Ballard, Elizabeth J.; Baker-Brown, Gloria

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“…Yet we also make a number of unique contributions. Prior research has manually coded the integrative complexity of relatively small samples of elite discourse, typically that of world leaders (e.g., Conway, Suedfeld, & Clements, ; Suedfeld, ; Suedfeld et al., ; Tetlock, , ; Thoemmes & Conway, ) and U.S. Supreme Court Justices (e.g., Gruenfeld, ; Gruenfeld & Preston, ; Tetlock et al., ), all of whom speak primarily to diverse constituencies within heterogeneous electorates or to ideologically divided colleagues. We move beyond this approach through the use of a relatively large sample of computer‐coded blog posts and through modeling integrative complexity as an outcome of opinion‐leadership style.…”

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“…Studies on integrative complexity and ideology have focused on political elites, such as world leaders (e.g., Conway, Suedfeld, & Clements, ; Suedfeld, ; Suedfeld, Bluck, Ballard, & Baker‐Brown, ; Suedfeld, Cross, & Brcic, ; Tetlock, , ; Thoemmes & Conway, ) and Supreme Court Justices (Gruenfeld, ; Gruenfeld & Preston, ; Tetlock et al., ), all of whom are tasked with addressing heterogeneous publics or ideologically partisan colleagues. Researchers have not yet examined the discourse of nonelites directed at like‐minded communities—a dominant feature of the contemporary political landscape that potentially introduces important shifts within group dynamics.…”

Section: Motivated Social Cognition and Ideologymentioning

confidence: 99%

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The “Deliberative Digital Divide:” Opinion Leadership and Integrative Complexity in the U.S. Political Blogosphere

Brundidge

Reid

Choi

et al. 2014

Political Psychology

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This study examined the association between political ideology and linguistic indicators of integrative complexity and opinion leadership in U.S. political blog posts (N = 519). Using Linguistic Inquiry and Word Count (LIWC) text analysis, we found that the posts of conservative bloggers were more integratively simple than those of liberal bloggers. Furthermore, in support of a proposed opinion leadership model of integrative complexity, the relationship between ideology and integrative complexity was mediated by psychological distancing (an indicator of a hierarchical communication style). These findings demonstrate an ideological divide in the extent to which the blogosphere reflects deliberative democratic ideals.

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The “Deliberative Digital Divide:” Opinion Leadership and Integrative Complexity in the U.S. Political Blogosphere

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Reid

Choi

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Political Psychology

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“…In fact, from this perspective simplicity may be viewed as not only cognitively efficient, but also as representing a more factually and morally correct view of the world, whereas complexity may be associated with confusion and vacillation. Certainly, some recent evidence suggests that there may be ideologically based differences in complexity (Suedfeld, Bluck, Ballard, & Baker-Brown, 1990;Tetlock, 1984).…”

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Making Life Complicated: Prompting the Use of Integratively Complex Thinking

Hunsberger

Lea

Pancer

et al. 1992

Journal of Personality

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Two studies are reported which assess the proclivity of itidividuals to increase the integrative cotnplexity of social, tnoral, or religious thinking when protnpted to do so. We also examined the influence on complexity of topic area and respotidetits' religiosity. Iti both studies significant increases iti complexity were obtained when participants were prompted to differentiate and integrate material, suggesting that an important distinction needs to be made between competence and performance with respect to complexity. However, there was some evidence that prompting complexity was more effective in eliciting differentiation than integration. Both studies indicated that overall, religious orientation was not a significant predictor of integrative complexity, nor did it interact with other factors (including religious vs. nonreligious content of stimulus materials). Finally, there was some evidence that complexity may vary across diiferent content areas, and this variation may be differentially affected by prompting for complexity.Fundamental to social cognitive analyses of human behavior is the assumption that the social perceiver engages in an active process of sim-

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“…Suedfeld and his colleagues have developed a technique for scoring the degree of cognitive complexity of political leaders. Suedfeld has co-authored articles on the topic of integrative complexity (Suedfeld, Bluck, Ballard, & Baker-Brown, 1990;Suedfeld, Bluck, Loewen, & Elkins, 1994;Suedfeld, Conway, & Eichhorn, 2001;Suedfeld & Tetlock, 1977;Suedfeld, Wallace, & Thachuk, 1993;Wallace, Suedfeld, & Thachuk, 1996). Suedfeld has also written on the political psychology of torture (1990), on the positive face of stress (Suedfeld, 1997), on the psychology of environmental ideology (LaVallee & Suedfeld, 1997), and on the vexed issue of value neutrality versus commitment in political psychological research (Suedfeld & Tetlock, 1991).…”

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“…Using speeches coded from Canadian Hansard from 1948 to 1988, the authors reported broad support for the hypothesis. Among Suedfeld's students, Ballard (1983;Ballard & Suedfeld, 1988;Suedfeld et al, 1990) has written directly on Canadian prime ministers. This particular application of integrative complexity to Canada's political leaders achieved national attention in 1998 with the publication of a large feature article in Canada's national newspaper, the Globe and Mail (Schachter, 1998).…”

Section: The Political Psychology Of Cognition and Decisionmentioning

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Political Psychology in Canada

Nesbitt‐Larking

2004

Political Psychology

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Although a number of political psychologists are active in Canada, there has been relatively little self-conscious development of the field. This article brings together contributions from political science and social psychology in Canada in an attempt to identify aspects of Canadian distinctiveness in the field of political psychology, notably the balance between mainstream and eclectic tendencies.KEY WORDS: Canada, attitudes, social psychology, psychoanalytic approaches, political cognition Canada presents an anomaly in the world of political psychology. For more than three decades, political psychologists working in Canadian universities have generated an impressive body of research. Despite this, political psychology receives little recognition in Canada and has been unable to achieve even minimal academic institutionalization. In this paper, I begin to set the record straight by mapping the principal achievements of Canadian-based scholars. In accordance with Greenstein's (1973, p. 469) pluralistic vision that we should "let many flowers bloom," my orientation toward political psychology derives from strands of mainstream traditions as well as from the more marginal eddy currents.In recent years, certain scholars in the field have been anxious to sharpen and narrow the scope of political psychology through processes of systematization and rationalization, arguing that it remains "ill-defined" (Kuklinski, 2002, p. 2). Political psychology is said to be insufficiently psychological or insufficiently political (see the debates in Kuklinski, 2002;Monroe, 2002). My own definition of political psychology begins with a broad and inclusive conceptualization of the political as social relations of power with respect to the making of rules and the distribution of resources. To claim that political psychology is insufficiently political implies a conceptualization of the political that is narrower than my own.Political Psychology, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2004 0162-895X © 2004 International Society of Political PsychologyPublished by Blackwell Publishing. Inc., 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148, USA, and 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ 97To claim that political psychology is insufficiently psychological implies moving away from an adequate treatment of the polity and the socioeconomic milieu. I concur with most political psychologists that political systems are affected by the psychological dispositions of political actors, but I go further than most in my insistence on the equal importance of the impact of political systems on individual psyches. Kuklinski (2002, p. 12) expressed concern that political psychologists unable to contribute adequately to the evolution of psychological science will develop "inferiority complexes." Such concern privileges externally validated credibility and ascribed status over the more open search for insight concerning the political mind. Kuklinski posited psychology as a defined discipline demanding conformity to its agenda, rather than an evolving toolkit of theories, methodologies,...

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Canadian federal elections: Motive profiles and integrative complexity in political speeches and popular media.

Cited by 20 publications

References 27 publications

The “Deliberative Digital Divide:” Opinion Leadership and Integrative Complexity in the U.S. Political Blogosphere

The “Deliberative Digital Divide:” Opinion Leadership and Integrative Complexity in the U.S. Political Blogosphere

Making Life Complicated: Prompting the Use of Integratively Complex Thinking

Political Psychology in Canada

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