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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Reducing Affective Polarization: Warm Group Relations or Policy Compromise?
Contributor:
Huddy, Leonie;
Yair, Omer
Published:
Wiley, 2021
Published in:
Political Psychology, 42 (2021) 2, Seite 291-309
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1111/pops.12699
ISSN:
0162-895X;
1467-9221
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
Hostility between rival political partisans, referred to as affective polarization, has increased in the United States over the last several decades generating considerable interest in its reduction. The current study examines two distinct sets of factors that potentially reduce affective polarization, drawn respectively from a group‐based and a policy‐based model of its origins. Specifically, we contrast the degree to which warm social relations and policy compromise reduce affective polarization. In two experimental studies (N = 937), respondents read a mock news story about an observed interaction between Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader, and Mitch McConnell, Senate majority leader. The leaders either interact in a warm or hostile manner and independently compromise, or fail to compromise, on immigration matters. In both studies, warm leader relations reduced affective polarization whereas policy compromise did not. We consider the implications of these findings for the study of affective polarization and its reduction.