| Summary: | Previous studies
relating low-effort or intuitive thinking to political conservatism are limited
to Western cultures. Using Turkish and predominantly Muslim samples, Study 1
found that analytic cognitive style (ACS) is negatively correlated with
political conservatism. Study 2 found that ACS correlates negatively with
political orientation and with social and personal conservatism, but not with
economic conservatism. It also examined other variables that might help to
explain this correlation. Study 3 tried to manipulate ACS via two different
standard priming procedures in two different samples, but our manipulation
checks failed. Study 4 manipulated intuitive thinking style via cognitive load
manipulation to see whether it enhances conservatism for contextualized
political attitudes but we did not find a significant effect. Overall, the
results indicate that social liberals tend to think more analytically than
conservatives and people's long term political attitudes may be resistant to
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