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Lammers, Joris ORCID: 0000-0002-2647-121X, Pauels, Eileen, Fleischmann, Alexandra ORCID: 0000-0001-8290-4561 and Galinsky, Adam D. (2022). Why People Hate Congress but Love Their Own Congressperson: An Information Processing Explanation. Pers. Soc. Psychol. Bull., 48 (3). S. 412 - 426. THOUSAND OAKS: SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC. ISSN 1552-7433

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Abstract

Citizens in Western democracies often have negative attitudes toward political bodies, yet consistently re-elect their own representatives to these same political bodies. They hate Congress, but love their own congressperson. In contrast to resource-based explanations, we propose that this Paradox of Congressional Support is partly due to the wide availability of negative information about politicians in open societies combined with basic processes of information processing. Five studies found that unrelated negative political information decreases attitudes toward political categories such as U.S. governors but has no effect on attitudes of familiar, individual politicians (e.g., one's own governor); additional studies further identify familiarity as the critical process. Importantly, we demonstrate that this effect generalizes to all U.S. regions and remains when controlling for and is not moderated by political ideology. These results place a presumed macrolevel political paradox within the domain of cognitive mechanisms of basic information processing.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Lammers, Joris UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2647-121X UNSPECIFIED Pauels, Eileen UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Fleischmann, Alexandra UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-8290-4561 UNSPECIFIED Galinsky, Adam D. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-570355
DOI:	10.1177/01461672211002336
Journal or Publication Title:	Pers. Soc. Psychol. Bull.
Volume:	48
Number:	3
Page Range:	S. 412 - 426
Date:	2022
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
Place of Publication:	THOUSAND OAKS
ISSN:	1552-7433
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 POLITICIANS; TRUST; ASSIMILATION; CORRUPTION; SCANDALS; PARADOX Multiple languages Psychology, Social Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/57035