Increasing Cognitive Complexity and Collaboration Across Communities: Being Muslim Being Scottish

Boyd-MacMillan, Eolene

doi:10.5038/1944-0472.9.4.1563

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“…This may enable them to take others' perspectives and see the world from others' points of view. We can see the importance of this from existing training programs aiming to decrease intergroup tensions by increasing levels of IC (e.g., Boyd-MacMillan, 2016;Boyd-MacMillan, Campbell, & Furey, 2016;Liht & Savage, 2013). Lab-based levels of IC tend to be quite low (means were 2.16 and 2.04, on a 7-point scale in our studies).…”

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confidence: 54%

Religious Complexity and Intergroup Bias

Sharp

LaBouff

2019

The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

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Religious Complexity and Intergroup Bias

Sharp

LaBouff

2019

The International Journal for the Psychology of Religion

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“…This approach operates on the assumption that these interventions might produce more stable complex thinkers—and our work validates that goal. Other work has similarly shown success in reducing radicalism by specific interventions targeted at increasing cognitive complexity (e.g., Boyd-MacMillan, 2016; Liht & Savage, 2013; Savage et al, 2014), again suggesting the possibility for a more general change in complexity that could be stable over time. Furthermore, given the increasing disparities and polarization during COVID-19, it is increasingly important to focus the influence of cognitive complexity on partisanship in more diverse populations.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…But why, specifically, might this matter? As mentioned at the beginning of this review, cognitive complexity affects a wide array of important outcomes across a diverse set of areas ranging from politics to economics to health (e.g., Boyd-MacMillan, 2016; Conway & Conway, 2011; Conway et al, 2011; S. C. Houck et al, 2017; Smith et al, 2008; Suedfeld & Bluck, 1988; Suedfeld et al, 1977; Suedfeld & Jhangiani, 2009; Tetlock, 1985).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The complexity of one’s thoughts—more generally called cognitive complexity —affects an impressive range of outcomes. Cognitive complexity has been linked to outbreaks of war and violence (Suedfeld & Bluck, 1988; Suedfeld et al, 1977; Suedfeld & Jhangiani, 2009; Tetlock, 1985), success in obtaining and keeping political power (Conway et al, 2012; Suedfeld & Rank, 1976; Tetlock, 1981; Thoemmes & Conway, 2007), terrorism (Boyd-MacMillan, 2016; Conway & Conway, 2011; Conway et al, 2011; S. C. Houck et al, 2017; Smith et al, 2008), economics (e.g., Abe, 2011), and health (Conway et al, 2017; Davidson et al, 2007; Suedfeld et al, 1998).…”

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In Search of the Cognitively Complex Person: Is There a Meaningful Trait Component of Cognitive Complexity?

Woodard

Chan

Conway

2021

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

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Researchers have long assumed that complex thinking is determined by both situational factors and stable, trait-based differences. However, although situational influences on complexity have been discussed at length in the literature, there is still no comprehensive integration of evidence regarding the theorized trait component of cognitive complexity. To fill this gap, we evaluate the degree that cognitive complexity is attributable to trait variance. Specifically, we review two domains of evidence pertaining to (a) the generalizability of individuals’ complex thinking across domains and the temporal stability of individuals’ complex thinking and (b) the relationship of complex thinking with conceptually related traits. Cumulatively, the literature suggests that persons’ cognitive complexity at any point in time results partially from a stable and generalizable trait component that accounts for a small-to-moderate amount of variance. It further suggests that cognitively complex persons are characterized by chronic trait-based differences in motivation and ability to think complexly.

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“…Programs that used a mixed type of prevention and did not exclusively focus on primary, secondary, or tertiary approaches as well as programs with participants from different ethnic backgrounds showed positive effects on attitudes and psychological outcomes. In these mixed programs practitioners from the local communities, at-risk Muslims, and even members of terrorist organizations participated (Boyd-MacMillan, 2016;Liht & Savage, 2013;Savage, 2014). Already Allport (1954) emphasized that intergroup contact leads to a less negative view of the out-group by transforming cognitive representations from a perspective of 'us versus them' towards an understanding of 'we'.…”

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confidence: 99%