PSC 344 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Ingroups And Outgroups
5 Nov 2017
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Fear and loathing across party lines: new evidence on group polarization. Party is a form of social identity in its own right, not an extension of group affiliation based on race, party cues affect nonpolitical behaviors. Party-based affective polarization has grown in past four decades. Implicit affect and behavioral discrimination are as high for partisanship as they are for race. Affective polarization: people who identify with a party view opposing partisans. Residential neighborhoods are more politically homogenous and parents increasingly negatively and co-partisans positively (outgroup vs. ingroup) dislike their children marrying into opposing partisan families (in the us, not other nations) Used the implicit attitudes test to measure affective preferences, found that cognitive processing exacerbated polarization. Political leaners behave like partisans in terms of affect. Party cue is stronger than race cue even in nonpolitical tasks. Outgroup animosity is larger than ingroup favoritism. Increased focus on equality norms cause racism to be suppressed.
