“…Even though economic conservatism and right-wing authoritarianism tend to be positively correlated (Azevedo, Jost, Rothmund, & Sterling, 2019), previous studies have found that social conservatism acts as a confounder variable in the association between both constructs (Everett, 2013;Fasce & Avendaño, 2020;Costello & Lilienfeld, 2020). Indeed, there is theoretical compatibility between being economically conservative and socially liberal, as the liberal values lying at the root of neoliberalism prioritize the need to promote individual freedom and perspective taking between ideological counterparts (Van Zomeren, Fischer, & Spears, 2007;Pettigrew & Tropp, 2008;Crowson, 2009)-which may also result in counterproductive attitudes, as can be seen from the existing proneness among conservatives to endorse conspiracy theories around climate change (van der Linden, Panagopoulos, Azevedo, & Jost, 2020) and vaccinations (Motta, 2021).…”