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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Self-Affirmation and Identity-Driven Political Behavior
Beteiligte:
Lyons, Benjamin A.;
Farhart, Christina E.;
Hall, Michael P.;
Kotcher, John;
Levendusky, Matthew;
Miller, Joanne M.;
Nyhan, Brendan;
Raimi, Kaitlin T.;
Reifler, Jason;
Saunders, Kyle L.;
Skytte, Rasmus;
Zhao, Xiaoquan
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2022
Erschienen in:
Journal of Experimental Political Science, 9 (2022) 2, Seite 225-240
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1017/xps.2020.46
ISSN:
2052-2649;
2052-2630
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AbstractPsychological attachment to political parties can bias people’s attitudes, beliefs, and group evaluations. Studies from psychology suggest that self-affirmation theory may ameliorate this problem in the domain of politics on a variety of outcome measures. We report a series of studies conducted by separate research teams that examine whether a self-affirmation intervention affects a variety of outcomes, including political or policy attitudes, factual beliefs, conspiracy beliefs, affective polarization, and evaluations of news sources. The different research teams use a variety of self-affirmation interventions, research designs, and outcomes. Despite these differences, the research teams consistently find that self-affirmation treatments have little effect. These findings suggest considerable caution is warranted for researchers who wish to apply the self-affirmation framework to studies that investigate political attitudes and beliefs. By presenting the “null results” of separate research teams, we hope to spark a discussion about whether and how the self-affirmation paradigm should be applied to political topics.