Partisan discrimination without explicit partisan cues

IF 1.8 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Journal of Social and Political Psychology Pub Date : 2022-07-13 DOI:10.5964/jspp.6491

J. Lyons, S. Utych

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Abstract

Much research has demonstrated that Democrats and Republicans use information about party affiliation to discriminate against one another. However, we know little about how people gain the necessary information about other people’s partisanship to engage in discriminatory behavior. We explore whether people perceive partisanship when shown only images of faces, and whether they then use these perceptions to engage in partisan discrimination. We find that they do. Using two studies we show that the partisan perceptions people derive from seeing images of faces influence discrimination of job applicants, and propensities to engage is a wide range of social interactions. People appear to be making judgements about partisanship using only facial appearance, and are willing act on that perception. The implication of this finding is that partisan discrimination is likely widespread, and does not require the explicit communication of partisan affiliations.

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没有明确党派暗示的党派歧视

许多研究表明，民主党人和共和党人利用党派关系的信息来歧视彼此。然而，我们对人们如何获得有关他人党派关系的必要信息以从事歧视行为知之甚少。我们探讨了当人们只看到人脸图像时，他们是否会感知到党派偏见，以及他们是否会利用这些感知来进行党派歧视。我们发现确实如此。通过两项研究，我们表明，人们从看到面孔图像中获得的党派观念影响了对求职者的歧视，并且参与广泛的社会互动的倾向。人们似乎只通过面部表情来判断党派，并愿意根据这种感知采取行动。这一发现的含义是，党派歧视很可能是普遍存在的，并不需要明确的党派关系沟通。

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Journal of Social and Political Psychology Social Sciences-Sociology and Political Science

CiteScore

2.70

自引率

4.80%

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审稿时长

40 weeks

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