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How digital media drive affective polarization through partisan sorting. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Significance Recent years have seen a rapid rise of affective polarization, characterized by intense negative feelings between partisan groups. This represents a severe societal risk, threatening democratic institutions and constituting a metacrisis ...
Törnberg P.
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Exploring the formation dynamics of affective polarization by considering coupled feedback
Frontiers in Physics, 2023 Polarization issues are generally subject to ideological and affective polarization. Particularly, affective polarization generally accelerates the polarization process.
Peng-Bi Cui
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Protecting the Ingroup? Authoritarianism, Immigration Attitudes, and Affective Polarization
Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 What makes people affectively polarized? Affective polarization is based on the idea that partisanship can be a social identity leading to polarization in the form of intergroup distancing between the own party and the other parties.
Emma A. Renström +2 more
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A post-Brexit intergroup contact intervention reduces affective polarization between Leavers and Remainers short-term. [PDF]
Commun PsycholWith mounting evidence of the harmful societal consequences of affective polarization, it is crucial to find ways of addressing it. Employing a randomized controlled trial, this study tested the effectiveness of an intervention based on theories of ...
Tausch N +4 more
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Affective polarization and coalition preferences in times of pandemic
Frontiers in Political Science, 2022 Using the RepResent Voter Panel Survey conducted in Belgium since the 2019 Federal elections, we investigate the relationship between affective polarization and voters' coalition preferences, in the first phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Results confirm a
Luca Bettarelli, Emilie Van Haute
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The virus of polarization: online debates about Covid-19 in Germany
Political Research Exchange, 2023 To what extent do online debates display features of political polarization and in how far does polarization pose a problem for democracy? We zoom in on affective polarization: the formation of societal groups with hostile feelings towards each other ...
Fabiana Schmid +2 more
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International Journal of Communication, 2023 In this introduction to the Special Section, we examine the complex relationship between media and political polarization—especially affective polarization. We consider differences in measurement and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Emily Kubin, Christian von Sikorski
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Affective polarization is uniformly distributed across American States. [PDF]
PNAS NexusUS partisans view each other with increasing negativity. While many attribute the growth of such affective polarization to nationally cross-cutting forces, such as ideological partisan sorting or access to partisan media, others emphasize the effects of ...
Holliday DE, Lelkes Y, Westwood SJ.
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The Origins and Consequences of Affective Polarization in the United States
Annual review of political science (Palo Alto, Calif. Print), 2019 While previously polarization was primarily seen only in issue-based terms, a new type of division has emerged in the mass public in recent years: Ordinary Americans increasingly dislike and distrust those from the other party.
S. Iyengar +4 more
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Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 2023 Solving the most pressing problems of our time requires broad collaboration across political party lines. Yet, the United States is experiencing record levels of affective polarization (distrust of the opposing political party).
Keith M. Welker +5 more
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