Social identity processes predicting post-election 2020 ideological extremism

IF 1.8 4区社会学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy Pub Date : 2022-11-10 DOI:10.1111/asap.12331

An Le, Joshua Brown, Zachary Hohman

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Abstract

The 2020 National Election seemed to play a role in the rise of political extremism in the United States. The present study investigates whether the interaction between changes in political identification and support for political leaders (Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden) from pre- to post-election was associated with ideological extremism among Republicans and Democrats. We collected responses using Amazon Mechanical Turk from U.S. residents (N = 241) before and after the 2020 U.S. National Election. Analyses showed a significant interaction predicting post-election ideological extremism between increased political identification and leader support for Republicans: B = .22, SE = .10, F(1, 232) = 12.27, p = .001. We did not find a significant interaction effect between increased political identification and leader support for Democrats: B = .01, F(1, 232) = .03, p = .862. According to simple slope tests, among Republicans with increased support for their leader in the election Donald Trump, political identification and post-election ideological extremism were positively associated. Among Republicans with less support for Donald Trump and Democrats at any level of change in support for Joe Biden, the association between political identification and post-election ideological extremism was nonsignificant.

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社会认同过程预测2020年大选后的意识形态极端主义

2020年全国大选似乎在美国政治极端主义的兴起中发挥了作用。本研究调查了选举前后政治认同和对政治领导人(唐纳德·特朗普vs.乔·拜登)支持的变化之间的相互作用是否与共和党和民主党的意识形态极端主义有关。我们在2020年美国大选前后使用亚马逊土耳其机器人收集了美国居民(N = 241)的回复。分析显示，增加的政治认同与领导人对共和党人的支持之间存在显著的交互作用，预测选举后意识形态极端主义:B = 0.22, SE = 0.10, F(1,232) = 12.27, p = .001。我们没有发现增加的政治认同和领导人对民主党的支持之间有显著的相互作用:B = 0.01, F(1,232) = 0.03, p = 0.862。根据简单的斜率测试，在选举中对其领导人唐纳德·特朗普的支持增加的共和党人中，政治认同和选举后的意识形态极端主义正相关。在对唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)的支持率较低的共和党人和对乔·拜登(Joe Biden)的支持率发生任何程度变化的民主党人中，政治认同与选举后意识形态极端主义之间的关联并不显著。

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期刊介绍： Recent articles in ASAP have examined social psychological methods in the study of economic and social justice including ageism, heterosexism, racism, sexism, status quo bias and other forms of discrimination, social problems such as climate change, extremism, homelessness, inter-group conflict, natural disasters, poverty, and terrorism, and social ideals such as democracy, empowerment, equality, health, and trust.