Seeing beyond political affiliations: The mediating role of perceived moral foundations on the partisan similarity-liking effect.

Decades of research have demonstrated that we like people who are more similar to us. The present research tested a potential mechanism for this similarity-liking effect in the domain of politics: the stereotype that people's political orientation reflects their morals. People believe that Demo...

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Main Authors: Kathryn Bruchmann, Birgit Koopmann-Holm, Aaron Scherer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6114773?pdf=render