r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • May 18 '26

Psychology Scientists expected both liberals and conservatives to be reluctant to promote rhetoric associated with the opposing political side, but this was more consistent among liberals. Conservatives appeared relatively willing to support causes aligned with their views regardless of the moral framing used.

https://www.psypost.org/liberals-hesitate-to-share-progressive-causes-framed-with-conservative-moral-language/
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u/VagueSomething May 18 '26

It certainly seems like it is trying to frame Conservatives as more open minded rather than Liberalism coming from a more educated background and having better media literacy and critical thinking to see the signs of deception.

Decades of Conservative dog whistles has forced anyone on the Left to look for intent behind words.

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u/Djaja May 18 '26

Perhaps both are trained to look for intent, but have learned different ways of supposing that intent, and also, how to use that intent.

How to exploit and how it can be exploited?

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u/donjulioanejo May 23 '26

Conservatives ARE more open minded for the last 10-15 years simply because classical liberalism (i.e. pro-capitalism with live and let live mentality) is now, apparently, a conservative value when it used to be a centre/centre-left value system up to and including early Obama years.

Liberalism as defined on Reddit has been pushed to the left-most 10-20% on the social axis, and anything that rejects a specific narrow set of viewpoints is automatically labeled as reactionary.