Controversial Article in Chronicle of Higher Education By Dan Berrett MARCH 23, 2016
They focused on three traits. One is the need for cognitive closure, or a preference for order and distaste for ambiguity. Scholars like John T. Jost, Arie W. Kruglanski, and Jonathan Haidt have documented high levels of this trait among politically conservative voters. These groups, Gambetta and Hertog write, also have two other tendencies: They accept prevailing hierarchies and, when confronted with the unfamiliar, they experience high levels of disgust. The authors observe that these traits are also central to radical Islamist ideology. Did engineers have them, too?
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