Thinking like a patriot: Criticising the country and the nation is linked to the differences in thinking style and cognitive ability

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111670" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.paid.2022.111670</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Thinking like a patriot: Criticising the country and the nation is linked to the differences in thinking style and cognitive ability

Original language description

Some forms of national identification facilitate criticism of one's own country and nation, whereas others prevent it. The critical form of national identification – constructive patriotism – is characterized by the willingness to criticise the group in order to improve it. The uncritical form of national identification – glorification – is characterized by seeing the group as superior to others and by intolerance of criticism of the group. We used dual-process theories to examine whether differences in thinking style and cognitive ability help predict the emergence of the critical and uncritical form of national identification. We ran three correlational studies (total N = 2509) in Poland including two samples representative of Polish society. We ran an internal meta-analysis to summarise the obtained results from all studies. We found that constructive patriotism was positively linked with need for cognition (i.e., the willingness to engage in slow, effortful information processing, for the random effect model r = 0.18). Constructive patriotism was also positively linked with cognitive ability (r = 0.07). In contrast, glorification was negatively associated with need for cognition (r = -0.26) and cognitive ability (r = -0.09). Glorification was also positively linked with faith in intuition (r = 0.14).

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Personality and Individual Differences

ISSN

0191-8869

e-ISSN

1873-3549

Volume of the periodical

195

Issue of the periodical within the volume

září

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

7

Pages from-to

111670

UT code for WoS article

000821656500005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85129238235