Abstract
Using different evaluation targets (i.e., politicians' pictures, ideological words, items referring to features attributed to political ingroup/outgroup) we characterized the intergroup bias among political groups in the Italian context (Study 1-2-3) and tested a model that may account for the bias itself (Study 3). For all evaluation targets, left-wing participants - compared to right-wing participants - showed a greater intergroup bias, expressing more negative emotions toward the outgroup. The process was influenced by a greater perceived threat of the outgroup. Conversely, right-wing participants expressed the bias only when presented with ideological words. Our results provide a detailed description of how intergroup bias in Italy is differently expressed by the two ideological groups depending on the targets used to represent the political counterpart. Moreover, the results show that the stronger bias expressed by left-wing participants is driven by perceived threat of the outgroup.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Article number | 26 |
| Journal | Frontiers in Psychology |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | JAN |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jan 24 2019 |
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Keywords
- Agentivity
- Entitativity
- Ideological conflict hypothesis
- Perceived threat
- Personalized politics
- Political intergroup bias
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Psychology(all)
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Left threatened by right : Political intergroup bias in the contemporary Italian context. / Schepisi, Michael; Porciello, Giuseppina; Bufalari, Ilaria; Aglioti, Salvatore Maria; Panasiti, Maria Serena.
In: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol. 10, No. JAN, 26, 24.01.2019.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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