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Deplorables: emotions, political sophistication, and political intolerance
While scholars have shown strong and enduring interest in the role of emotions in politics, questions remain about the connections between emotions and political intolerance. First, it is not clear which emotion (if any) is likely to produce intolerance toward one’s disliked groups, with different studies favoring hatred, anger, or fear. Second, it is unclear whether these effects of emotion are moderated by sophistication, as some conventional political thought argues. Do the less-sophisticated, in other words, rely on emotions when making judgments, therefore being less tolerant than sophisticates, who rely on reason? Here, we test both hypotheses using a large representative sample of the American population. We find that hatred, anger, and fear are significantly but only modestly related to political intolerance. Moreover, the effects of emotions on intolerance are not consistently stronger among the unsophisticated. These findings provide little support for the conventional assumption that the less sophisticated rely on their emotions in making political judgments
Etnicidad en la prehistoria neolítica. Un estudio computacional
El objetivo de este trabajo es presentar la simulación computacional de un modelo teórico sobre las dinámicas de etnicidad, construido sobre referentes etnoarqueológicos comparables al grado de desarrollo de las sociedades humanas del VI y V milenio en la Península Ibérica. Intentamos explicar y justificar el uso de los conceptos de etnicidad y diversidad cultural como categorías dentro del campo de la simulación computacional, cuya aplicación dinámica puede proyectarse dentro del campo de la arqueología de sociedades cazadoras-recolectoras y en su transformación hacia sociedades neolíticas
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