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Political ideology at face value

Samochowiec, Jakub and Wänke, Michaela and Fiedler, Klaus. (2010) Political ideology at face value. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1 (3). pp. 206-213.

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Abstract

Four studies demonstrated that perceivers were able to identify the political attitudes of unknown politicians on a left–right dimension when the targets were merely shown in photographs. In Study 1, party membership provided an objective criterion for political attitudes, whereas actual voting behavior served as a validity criterion in Studies 2, 3a, and 3b. All studies yielded ratings highly chance accuracy. Additional ratings suggest that perceived dominance may partly account for the effect. Moreover, perceivers were more accurate when they rated politicians whose attitudes were opposite to their own position, reflecting a more liberal criterion for out-group than for in-group members. Finally, politicians who were rated accurately had higher chances of being reelected to the following parliamentary session.
Faculties and Departments:07 Faculty of Psychology > Departement Psychologie > Ehemalige Einheiten Psychologie > Sozial- und Wirtschaftspsychologie (Wänke)
UniBasel Contributors:Wänke, Michaela and Samochowiec, Jakub
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:SAGE
ISSN:1948-5506
e-ISSN:1948-5514
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
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Deposited On:14 Sep 2012 07:04

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