Political Opposites Do Not Attract: The Effects of Ideological Dissimilarity on Impression Formation

Past research shows that people like others who are similar to themselves, and that political partisans tend to dislike those with opposing viewpoints. Two studies examined how initial person impressions changed after discovering that the target held similar or dissimilar political beliefs. Using po...

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Main Authors: Stephanie R. Mallinas, Jarret T. Crawford, Shana Cole
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for Psychology 2018-03-01
Series:Journal of Social and Political Psychology
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Online Access:http://jspp.psychopen.eu/article/view/747