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Affective Polarization Amplifies Ideological Polarization

2022
Uncovering the causes and foundations of increasing political polarization poses a pressing open problem to all social sciences. Here, we report results from an online experiment with a representative sample of the US population, deployed the week before the 2020 US presidential election, to analyze the role of affective polarization and social ...
Bauer, Kevin, Chen, Yan , Hett, Florian , Kosfeld, Michael   +3 more
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Elite polarization, party extremity, and affective polarization

Electoral Studies, 2018
Abstract Elites in the U.S. have become increasingly polarized over the past several decades. More recently, the degree to which partisans view the opposing party more negatively than their own — a phenomenon called affective, or social, polarization — has increased. How does elite polarization inform affective polarization?
Kevin K. Banda, John Cluverius
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Exploring the Paradox of Cross-Cutting Exposure and Affective Polarization: A Curvilinear Model Influenced by Political Ideology Strength

Media Psychology
Previous research provides mixed results on how exposure to counter-attitudinal information (i.e. cross-cutting exposure) affects political polarization. Our study examines two theoretical models (i.e.
Han Lin, Xuejin Jiang, J. Lee, Yi Wang, Yonghwan Kim   +4 more
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Trends in Political Science Research: Affective Polarization

International Political Science Abstracts
This article provides a systematic review of the literature on affective polarization, emphasizing its emotional, identity-based, and systemic dimensions across diverse political contexts.
Tamanna M. Shah
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Affective Polarization

Competing political ideals are considered a necessary requirement for a healthy democracy. However, scholarship has uncovered a more worrisome form of political polarization, not based on ideology but rather rooted in distrust, dislike, and contempt across party lines.
Diego Garzia, Andres Reiljan, Frederico Ferreira da Silva, Alexander H. Trechsel   +3 more
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A New Measure of Affective Polarization

American Political Science Review
Affective polarization has emerged as an important construct in the literature on partisanship. However, most efforts to measure it have relied on simple preexisting indices, potentially missing the complexity of affective polarization.
Nicolas Campos, Christopher M. Federico
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Affective Polarization Between Opinion-Based Groups in a Context of Low Partisan Discord: Measuring Its Prevalence and Consequences

International journal of public opinion research
Affective polarization has been primarily studied as a phenomenon between partisans. Recently, Hobolt, Leeper, & Tilley (2021) showed in the context of Brexit that affective polarization can also materialize around opinion-based groups, that is ...
David Schieferdecker, Philippe Joly, Thorsten Faas   +2 more
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Reranking partisan animosity in algorithmic social media feeds alters affective polarization.

Science
Today, social media platforms hold the sole power to study the effects of feed-ranking algorithms. We developed a platform-independent method that reranks participants' feeds in real time and used this method to conduct a preregistered 10-day field ...
Tiziano Piccardi, Martin Saveski, Chenyan Jia, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Jeanne L Tsai, Michael S. Bernstein   +5 more
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Does Populism Fuel Affective Polarization? An Individual-Level Panel Data Analysis

Political Studies
Populism and affective polarization speak of a bisected society, and scholars have linked them at the party level. While the relationship between populism and affective polarization can be reciprocal, this article leverages panel data to delve into the ...
Juan Pérez-Rajó
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Social Desirability and Affective Polarization

Public Opinion Quarterly, 2023
Abstract Media coverage of affective polarization—partisans disliking and distrusting out-partisans while liking and trusting in-partisans—is abundant, both creating and reflecting a belief among the public that partisans are more affectively polarized than they are.
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