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Lammers, Joris ORCID: 0000-0002-2647-121X, Koch, Alex ORCID: 0000-0002-6267-8066, Conway, Paul and Brandt, Mark J. (2017). The Political Domain Appears Simpler to the Politically Extreme Than to Political Moderates. Soc. Psychol. Personal Sci., 8 (6). S. 612 - 623. THOUSAND OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 1948-5514

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Abstract

How does political preference affect categorization in the political domain? Eight studies demonstrate that people on both ends of the political spectrumstrong Republicans and strong Democratsform simpler and more clustered categories of political stimuli than do moderates and neutrals. This pattern was obtained regardless of whether stimuli were politicians (Study 1), social groups (Study 2), or newspapers (Study 3). Furthermore, both strong Republicans and strong Democrats were more likely to make inferences about the world based on their clustered categorization. This was found for estimating the likelihood that geographical location determines voting (Study 4), that political preference determines personal taste (Study 5), and that social relationships determine political preference (Study 6). The effect is amplified if political ideology is salient (Study 7) and remains after controlling for differences in political sophistication (Study 8). The political domain appears simpler to the politically extreme than to political moderates.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Lammers, Joris UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-121X UNSPECIFIED Koch, Alex UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6267-8066 UNSPECIFIED Conway, Paul UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Brandt, Mark J. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-222228
DOI:	10.1177/1948550616678456
Journal or Publication Title:	Soc. Psychol. Personal Sci.
Volume:	8
Number:	6
Page Range:	S. 612 - 623
Date:	2017
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication:	THOUSAND OAKS
ISSN:	1948-5514
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Human Sciences Faculty of Management, Economy and Social Sciences
Divisions:	Faculty of Human Sciences > Department Psychologie Center of Excellence C-SEB
Subjects:	Psychology
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language US PRESIDENTIAL-ELECTION; AUTHORITARIAN PERSONALITY; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; AMERICAN ELECTORATE; ATTITUDE EXTREMITY; COGNITIVE CLOSURE; SOCIAL COGNITION; MECHANICAL TURK; CATEGORIZATION; CONFLICT Multiple languages Psychology, Social Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/22222