The Perception of Others' Attitude Bases and Position as Antecedents to Inferences about Their Open-mindedness: Consequences for Advocacy
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu15930986599293592021-08-03T07:15:21Z The Perception of Others' Attitude Bases and Position as Antecedents to Inferences about Their Open-mindedness: Consequences for Advocacy Teeny, Jacob D. Psychology Social Psychology psychology politics open minded inferences person perception affect cognition attitudes advocacy counterattitudinal Political polarization poses a key threat to societies by preventing potential solutions to societal issues from receiving the widespread support often necessary for their implementation. In this research, we demonstrate how the perception of others’ open-mindedness has the potential to influence polarization, specifically, through its effect on people’s willingness to engage in attitudinal advocacy (i.e., expressing one’s attitudes to others). Although there has been much work on which individuals are in actuality more or less open-minded, the present work is some of the first to identify consequences and antecedents to lay perceptions of others as open-minded. That is, we demonstrate that inferences about a targets’ attitude-relevant open-mindedness have a robust effect on perceivers’ willingness to engage those targets in attitudinal discourse; and we identify two perceptions about the target’s attitude that can have a strong effect on how open-minded these targets are inferred to be. First, targets perceived to hold an attitude based more on affect relative to cognition are inferred to be less open-minded. Second, targets holding a counter- versus pro-attitudinal stance are also inferred to be less open-minded – an effect due to the greater affect relative to cognition ascribed to counter-attitudinal targets’ attitude bases. Across eight studies which span multiple methodologies, attitude topics, boundary conditions, and controls (i.e., perceptions of the target’s extremity and certainty), we provide convergent evidence for our proposed effects and processes. Altogether, this work advances our understanding of when and why people are inferred to be open-mined and how such inferences influence people’s willingness to engage them in attitudinal advocacy. We position these findings in the context of seminal research on how people perceive counter-attitudinal targets and the kinds of bias individuals impute to those with whom they disagree. 2020 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593098659929359 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1593098659929359 restricted--full text unavailable until 2022-08-25 This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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Psychology Social Psychology psychology politics open minded inferences person perception affect cognition attitudes advocacy counterattitudinal Teeny, Jacob D. The Perception of Others' Attitude Bases and Position as Antecedents to Inferences about Their Open-mindedness: Consequences for Advocacy |
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Teeny, Jacob D. |
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Teeny, Jacob D. |
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The Perception of Others' Attitude Bases and Position as Antecedents to Inferences about Their Open-mindedness: Consequences for Advocacy |
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The Perception of Others' Attitude Bases and Position as Antecedents to Inferences about Their Open-mindedness: Consequences for Advocacy |
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The Perception of Others' Attitude Bases and Position as Antecedents to Inferences about Their Open-mindedness: Consequences for Advocacy |
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The Perception of Others' Attitude Bases and Position as Antecedents to Inferences about Their Open-mindedness: Consequences for Advocacy |
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perception of others' attitude bases and position as antecedents to inferences about their open-mindedness: consequences for advocacy |
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The Ohio State University / OhioLINK |
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