Misperceiving Bullshit as Profound Is Associated with Favorable Views of Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Conservatism

Stefan Pfattheicher; Simon Schindler

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0153419

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Misperceiving Bullshit as Profound Is Associated with Favorable Views of Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Conservatism

Stefan Pfattheicher ,

* E-mail: stefan.pfattheicher@uni-ulm.de

Affiliation Ulm University, Ulm, Germany
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Simon Schindler

Affiliation Kassel University, Kassel, Germany
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Misperceiving Bullshit as Profound Is Associated with Favorable Views of Cruz, Rubio, Trump and Conservatism

Stefan Pfattheicher,
Simon Schindler

Published: April 29, 2016
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153419

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Questionable Motivation

Posted by Niall.Bolger on 07 May 2016 at 15:56 GMT

Although the authors may have intended this work to be a dispassionate contribution to knowledge, it comes across as politically motivated. It feeds into misguided ideas by some on the left that conservatives are stupid. They are not.

No competing interests declared.

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