🚨 New Paper alert! 🚨 Koch, Dotsch, Imhoff, Unkelbach, & @hansalves.bsky.social (2025). Ideological beliefs as cues to exploitation-exploration behavior.@jexpsocpsych.bsky.social . https://buff.ly/4gGQsoW This paper has a long story to it. Sorry, but I will not spare you. - ThreadSky

rolandimhoff.bsky.social • 58 days ago

🚨 New Paper alert! 🚨 Koch, Dotsch, Imhoff, Unkelbach, & @hansalves.bsky.social (2025). Ideological beliefs as cues to exploitation-exploration [email protected] . https://buff.ly/4gGQsoW
This paper has a long story to it. Sorry, but I will not spare you.

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rolandimhoff.bsky.social•58 days ago

Early 2014, Alex Koch and I got together to combine my interest in putting relevant content dimensions of stereotypes to a data-driven test with Alex’s recently developed spatial arrangement tool.

rolandimhoff.bsky.social•58 days ago

Our first data suggested that people sorted the social groups others had generated on the two dimensions of agency/status and ideological beliefs, but not on warmth. We collected and analyzed data like maniacs, but the pattern always remained. https://buff.ly/3DRg0AQ

rolandimhoff.bsky.social•58 days ago

Trying to publish this, we faced many hurdles, but a major one was: But why? Why SHOULD people care about beliefs? The sexiness of the warmth primacy idea is that it resonates: sure, I want to know whether someone’s friend or foe. But ideology?

rolandimhoff.bsky.social•58 days ago

That seemed like a very Western, modern, potentially even short-lived characteristic to care about. So, that was the puzzle: Why (ideological) beliefs? The “beeline” was born! We tried to come up with something at least as grandiose and ancient as friend or foe.

rolandimhoff.bsky.social•58 days ago

And we found it: we connected it to basic tendencies of exploration vs. exploitation. In lush conditions, it is safe to exploit and feed off the oversupply. In dire conditions, it seems advisable to seek new shores, a better life, to explore.

rolandimhoff.bsky.social•58 days ago

Our reasoning was that the beliefs dimension taps into stereotypes, whether people of the sort would rather exploit (conservative) or explore (progressive). Thus, creating environments in which either of the two is more beneficial should create different delegation preferences.

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