测试社会压力假设:党内社会压力是否会减少党外同情心?
1Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
PNAS nexus
|October 16, 2024
概括
党派可能会抵制他们自己的政治团体的社会压力,可能会增加对政治对手的同情心. 这挑战了这样一个观点,即群体内部的不赞成会阻碍跨党派的同情心.
科学领域:
- 政治心理学 政治心理学
- 社会心理学 社会心理学
- 沟通研究 沟通研究
背景情况:
- 共感对于弥合政治分歧和减少群体间敌意至关重要.
- 跨党派的同理心特别罕见,人们担心来自政治团体内部的社会压力会阻止它.
研究的目的:
- 检查关于政治同情心的社会压力假设.
- 确定感知到的党内不赞成是否因果性地减少了对政治外部群体的同情心.
主要方法:
- 分析横截面调查数据,以评估党内对外部同情心的态度.
- 实验性操纵来测试期望党内不赞成对与党外同情的意图产生因果关系的影响.
- 对社会压力对同理心和群体间态度的影响的探索性分析.
主要成果:
- 公民认为党内党员不太赞成党外同情,初步分析表明与较低的同情有相关性.
- 实验数据表明,期待党内不赞成并不会显著减少与政治对手同情的意图.
- 探索性发现表明,党内的社会压力可能会矛盾地增加党外的同情心和对党内人的失望.
结论:
- 社会压力假设,作为减少跨党派同情心的直接原因,没有实验证据支持.
- 党派人士表现出抵抗党内社会压力的能力,甚至可能弥补他们的团体缺乏党外同情心.
- 研究结果表明,通过理解社会影响的复杂作用,可以通过了解政治分歧来培养同情心的潜在策略.
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