Affective Polarization and Misinformation Belief.

IF 3.3 1区 社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Behavior Pub Date : 2023-01-18 DOI:10.1007/s11109-022-09851-w
Libby Jenke
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While affective polarization has been shown to have serious social consequences, there is little evidence regarding its effects on political attitudes and behavior such as policy preferences, voting, or political information accrual. This paper provides evidence that affective polarization impacts misinformation belief, arguing that citizens with higher levels of affective polarization are more likely to believe in-party-congruent misinformation and less likely to believe out-party-congruent misinformation. The argument is supported by data from the ANES 2020 Social Media Study and the ANES 2020 Time Series Study, which speaks to the generalizability of the relationship. Additionally, a survey experiment provides evidence that the relationship is causal. The results hold among Democrats and Republicans and are independent of the effects of partisan strength and ideological extremity. Furthermore, the relationship between affective polarization and misinformation belief is exacerbated by political sophistication rather than tempered by it, implying that education will not solve the issue. The results speak to the need for work on reducing affective polarization.

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情感两极分化与错误信息信仰。
尽管情感极化已被证明会产生严重的社会后果,但有关其对政治态度和行为(如政策偏好、投票或政治信息累积)的影响的证据却很少。本文提供了情感极化影响误导信息信仰的证据,认为情感极化程度较高的公民更有可能相信党内一致的误导信息,而较少可能相信党外一致的误导信息。这一论点得到了来自 ANES 2020 社交媒体研究和 ANES 2020 时间序列研究的数据的支持,这说明了这一关系的普遍性。此外,一项调查实验也证明了这种关系的因果性。结果在民主党人和共和党人中都成立,并且不受党派力量和意识形态极端性的影响。此外,情感极化与错误信息信念之间的关系会因政治成熟度而加剧,而不是因政治成熟度而缓和,这意味着教育并不能解决这一问题。这些结果说明需要努力减少情感极化。
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Political Behavior
Political Behavior POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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期刊介绍: Political Behavior publishes original research in the general fields of political behavior, institutions, processes, and policies. Approaches include economic (preference structuring, bargaining), psychological (attitude formation and change, motivations, perceptions), sociological (roles, group, class), or political (decision making, coalitions, influence). Articles focus on the political behavior (conventional or unconventional) of the individual person or small group (microanalysis), or of large organizations that participate in the political process such as parties, interest groups, political action committees, governmental agencies, and mass media (macroanalysis). As an interdisciplinary journal, Political Behavior integrates various approaches across different levels of theoretical abstraction and empirical domain (contextual analysis). Officially cited as: Polit Behav
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