Abstract

At the recent 30th Annual PsyPAG Conference in Glasgow, I was fortunate enough to be awarded the organisation’s Rising Researcher Award. As part of this award, I was invited to present work that myself and colleagues have been doing at the University of Lincoln on the social psychology of social and political orientations. In this article, I review some of the key theories currently used in this area, before describing some data that we’ve collected prior to the 2015 British General Election. I then conclude the article by outlining some potential avenues for further research.