Interpersonal accuracy in a political context is moderated by the extremity of one's political attitudes

Ivanov, Igor; Michelet, Dominique; Delmas, Florian; Wänke, Michaela

doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2018.07.001

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“…The second line of research corroborates this possibility. Thus, a series of studies show that naïve subjects can correctly discriminate between conservative and liberal politicians from their mere faces (Jahoda, 1954;Bull & Hawkes, 1982;Rule & Ambady, 2010;Samochowiec et al, 2010;Olivola & Todorov, 2010a;Olivola et al, 2012; however see also, Roberts et al 2011;Ivanov et al, 2018). This suggests the existence of conservative and liberal facial stereotypes, and according to recent studies conservative candidates stand to gain votes the more they resemble such conservative stereotypic facial appearances (Olivola et al, 2012(Olivola et al, , 2018.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…A line of research has thus investigated the associations between physical strength (i.e., a physical markers of dominance) and political views in lay people and the bulk of the evidence suggests that higher physical strength leads to more conservative views in males (Price et al, 2011;. Furthermore, past studies has provided some evidence that naïve subjects, to some extent, can predict the policy positions of actual politicians from their mere faces (Jahoda, 1954;Bull & Hawkes, 1982;Rule & Ambady, 2010;Samochowiec et al, 2010;Olivola & Todorov, 2010a;Olivola et al, 2012; however see also, Roberts et al 2011;Ivanov et al, 2018). Such findings raise the possibility that conservative individuals prefer dominant politicians because they share greater similarities with these leaders either in terms of physical appearance or in terms of policy views.…”

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Why are right-wing voters attracted to dominant leaders? Assessing competing theories of psychological mechanisms

Laustsen

Petersen

2020

The Leadership Quarterly

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Why are right-wing voters attracted to dominant leaders? Assessing competing theories of psychological mechanisms

Laustsen

Petersen

2020

The Leadership Quarterly

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“…The evidence is conflicting. For example, in judging the political views of other individuals, those with more extreme political attitudes are in fact more accurate judges [28]. By contrast, when inaccuracies are examined among perceptions of the intergroup gap in ideological positions, those with less extreme partisan positions [17], weaker ingroup identity [14,21] and less political sophistication [1] are more accurate.…”

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Understanding and combating misperceived polarization

Lees

Cikara

2021

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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By many accounts politics is becoming more polarized, yielding dire consequences for democracy and trust in government. Yet a growing body of research on so-called false polarization finds that perceptions of ‘what the other side believes’ are inaccurate—specifically, overly pessimistic—and that these inaccuracies exacerbate intergroup conflict. Through a review of existing work and a reanalysis of published data, we (i) develop a typology of the disparate phenomena that are labelled ‘polarization’, (ii) use that typology to distinguish actual from (mis)perceived polarization, and (iii) identify when misperceived polarization gives rise to actual polarization (e.g. extreme issue attitudes and prejudice). We further suggest that a specific psychological domain is ideal for developing corrective interventions: meta-perception , one's judgement of how they are perceived by others. We review evidence indicating that correcting meta-perception inaccuracies is effective at reducing intergroup conflict and discuss methods for precisely measuring meta-perception accuracy. We argue that the reputational nature of meta-perception provides a motivational mechanism by which individuals are sensitive to the truth, even when those truths pertain to the ‘other side’. We conclude by discussing how these insights can be integrated into existing research seeking to understand polarization and its negative consequences. This article is part of the theme issue ‘The political brain: neurocognitive and computational mechanisms’.

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“…The evidence is conflicting. For example, in judging the political views of other individuals, those with more extreme political attitudes are in fact more accurate judges (Ivanov et al, 2018). By contrast, when inaccuracies are examined among perceptions of the intergroup gap in ideological positions, those with less extreme partisan positions (Van Boven et al, 2012), weaker ingroup identity (Ahler & Sood, 2018;Enders & Armaly, 2018), and less political sophistication (Armaly & Enders, 2020) are more accurate.…”

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Understanding and Combating Misperceived Polarization

Lees¹,

Cikara²

2020

Preprint

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By many accounts politics is becoming more polarized, yielding dire consequences for democracy and trust in government. Yet a growing body of research on “false polarization” finds that perceptions of “what the other side believes” are inaccurate–specifically, overly pessimistic–and that these inaccuracies exacerbate intergroup conflict. Through a review of existing work and a reanalysis of published data, we (i) develop a typology of the disparate phenomena that are labeled “polarization,” (ii) use that typology to understand when polarization is “false,” and (iii) identify when false polarization gives rise to true polarization (e.g., extreme issue attitudes and prejudice). We further suggest that a specific psychological domain is ideal for developing corrective interventions: meta-perception, one’s judgment of how they are perceived by others. We review evidence indicating that correcting meta-perception inaccuracies is effective at reducing intergroup conflict, and discuss methods for precisely measuring meta-perception accuracy. We argue that the reputational nature of meta-perception provides a motivational mechanism by which individuals are sensitive to the truth, even when those truths pertain to the “other side.” We conclude by discussing how these insights can be integrated into existing research across multiple disciplines seeking to understand polarization and its negative consequences.

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Interpersonal accuracy in a political context is moderated by the extremity of one's political attitudes

Cited by 7 publications

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Why are right-wing voters attracted to dominant leaders? Assessing competing theories of psychological mechanisms

Why are right-wing voters attracted to dominant leaders? Assessing competing theories of psychological mechanisms

Understanding and combating misperceived polarization

Understanding and Combating Misperceived Polarization

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