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SUMMARY:Tribalism in War and Peace: The nature and evolution of ideologica
 l epistemology and its significance for modern social science - Dr Cory Cl
 ark\, Durham University
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CONTACT:Elisa Militaru
DESCRIPTION:Because of a long history of intergroup conflict\, humans evol
 ved to be tribal. These tribal tendencies can lead individuals to sacrific
 e sound reasoning and judgmental accuracy in order to conform to and defen
 d the views of their ingroup. Political tribes are one of the most salient
  forms of modern tribal identity\, and so politics likely triggers these t
 ribal tendencies\, leading to ideologically distorted information processi
 ng. My work has shown that these ideological biases exist in similar degre
 es in liberals and conservatives\, but certain sacred concerns can lead to
  stronger biases in one group than in the other. Liberals have sacred conc
 erns about traditionally conceived disadvantaged groups\, and thus liberal
 s are more biased than conservatives when evaluating information with sign
 ificance to such groups. And because social scientists are overwhelmingly 
 liberal\, these sacred concerns may have biased and may continue to bias t
 he conclusions drawn by social scientists.\n\n_Cory Clark received her PhD
  in Social Psychology from University of California\, Irvine in 2014\, and
  she is currently an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at Durham Un
 iversity. She has two main programs of research\, examining (1) how puniti
 ve desires shape beliefs about human agency and moral responsibility\, and
  (2) how political biases influence evaluations of science. She also co-ho
 sts a podcast\, Psyphilopod\, which covers psychology\, philosophy\, polit
 ics\, and academic culture._
LOCATION:Lecture Room\, Department of Psychology\, Downing Site\, Cambridg
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