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Shanto Iyengar and Sean J. Westood. 2015. “Fear and Loathing across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization.” -

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Hostile f-elings for opposing party are ingrained or automatic in voters’ minds—polarization based on party is just as strong as polarization based on race and discriminate against opposing partisans more than they discriminate based on race o Significant because this incentivizes elites to be confrontational rather than cooperative Evidence: implicit, explicit, and behavioral cues Partisanship is a strong cue for even nonpolitical judgments and behaviors o You can be in a normal group, and identify as partisan somehow, and everyone else reacts negatively o Partisan affiliantion displayed: in conversation, social media, lawns and bumper stickers, etc. Hypotheses: o That partisan affect is sufficiently ingrained in citizen consciousness to manifest itself in implicit indicators of partisan attitudes o That the effect size of partisan affect is larger than the effect size of affect for other social divides where social norms discourage discrimination o That partisanship and partisan affect motivate respondents to make determinations and judgments that are biased in favor of copartisans o That copartisan favoritism is a weaker influence than animosity toward opposing partisans Results

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