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Tribalism Is Human Nature (2019)
Journal Article
Clark, C. J., Liu, B. S., Winegard, B. M., & Ditto, P. H. (2019). Tribalism Is Human Nature. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 28(6), 587-592. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963721419862289

Humans evolved in the context of intense intergroup competition, and groups comprised of loyal members more often succeeded than groups comprised of nonloyal members. Therefore, selective pressures have sculpted human minds to be tribal, and group lo... Read More about Tribalism Is Human Nature.

Partisan bias and its discontents (2019)
Journal Article
Clark, C., Ditto, P., Liu, B., Wojcik, S., Chen, E., Grady, R., …Zinger, J. (2019). Partisan bias and its discontents. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(2), 304-316. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691618817753

Baron and Jost (this issue, p. 292) present three critiques of our meta-analysis demonstrating similar levels of partisan bias in liberals and conservatives: (a) that the studies we examined were biased toward finding symmetrical bias among liberals... Read More about Partisan bias and its discontents.

Forget the folk: Moral responsibility preservation motives and other conditions for compatibilism (2019)
Journal Article
Clark, C., Winegard, B., & Baumeister, R. (2019). Forget the folk: Moral responsibility preservation motives and other conditions for compatibilism. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, Article 215. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00215

For years, experimental philosophers have attempted to discern whether laypeople find free will compatible with a scientifically deterministic understanding of the universe, yet no consensus has emerged. The present work provides one potential explan... Read More about Forget the folk: Moral responsibility preservation motives and other conditions for compatibilism.

On the Necessity of Consciousness for Sophisticated Human Action (2018)
Journal Article
Baumeister, R., Lau, S., Maranges, H., & Clark, C. (2018). On the Necessity of Consciousness for Sophisticated Human Action. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, Article 1925. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01925

In this essay, we aim to counter and qualify the epiphenomenalist challenge proposed in this special issue on the grounds of empirical and theoretical arguments. The current body of scientific knowledge strongly indicates that conscious thought is a... Read More about On the Necessity of Consciousness for Sophisticated Human Action.

At Least Bias Is Bipartisan: A Meta-Analytic Comparison of Partisan Bias in Liberals and Conservatives (2018)
Journal Article
Ditto, P., Liu, B., Clark, C., Wojcik, S., Chen, E., Grady, R., …Zinger, J. (2019). At Least Bias Is Bipartisan: A Meta-Analytic Comparison of Partisan Bias in Liberals and Conservatives. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 14(2), 273-291. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691617746796

Both liberals and conservatives accuse their political opponents of partisan bias, but is there empirical evidence that one side of the political aisle is indeed more biased than the other? To address this question, we meta-analyzed the results of 51... Read More about At Least Bias Is Bipartisan: A Meta-Analytic Comparison of Partisan Bias in Liberals and Conservatives.

Are morally good actions ever free? (2018)
Journal Article
Clark, C., Shniderman, A., Luguri, J., Baumeister, R., & Ditto, P. (2018). Are morally good actions ever free?. Consciousness and Cognition, 63, 161-182. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.concog.2018.05.006

Research has shown that people ascribe more responsibility to morally bad actions than both morally good and neutral ones, suggesting that people do not attribute responsibility to morally good actions. The present work demonstrates that this is not... Read More about Are morally good actions ever free?.

RETRACTED: Declines in Religiosity Predict Increases in Violent Crime—but Not Among Countries With Relatively High Average IQ
Journal Article
Clark, C. J., Winegard, B. M., Beardslee, J., Baumeister, R. F., & Shariff, A. F. RETRACTED: Declines in Religiosity Predict Increases in Violent Crime—but Not Among Countries With Relatively High Average IQ. Psychological Science, 31(2), 170-183. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619897915

The following article has been retracted at the request of the authors. Further information can be found at https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797620941437

Many scholars have argued that religion reduces violent behavior within human social groups. Here,... Read More about RETRACTED: Declines in Religiosity Predict Increases in Violent Crime—but Not Among Countries With Relatively High Average IQ.