Party over policy: The dominating impact of group influence on political beliefs.

By Geoffrey L. Cohen. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2003

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Subfields: Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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Cultural cognition of scientific consensus (2011, background): “forthcoming); and create identityprotective motivations to conform one’s beliefs to those of like-minded others in order to avoid dissonance and protect social standing (Cohen 2003; Kahan et al. 2007).”
Opinion Fluctuations and Disagreement in Social Networks (2010, neutral): “, Cohen [13]) documenting changes in political beliefs as a result of parties or other influential organizations.”
The Psychology of Self‐defense: Self‐Affirmation Theory (2006, background): “(1979) study scrutinized the evidence in a way that would protect their identity either as a ‘‘law and order’’ conservative or as a ‘‘humanitarian’’ liberal (Cohen, 2003; Ellsworth & Ross, 1983).”
Moral reframing: A technique for effective and persuasive communication across political divides (2019, background): “Additionally, moral reframing may signal to the message recipient that the message source is a fellow ingroup member and therefore someone who is credible and trustworthy (Cohen, 2003; Kalkhoff & Barnum, 2000).”
Framing Climate Change: Economics, Ideology, and Uncertainty in American News Media Content From 1988 to 2014 (2019, background): “…of research on public opinion formation has shown such cues to be informative for citizens and persuasive on a wide range of issues (Zaller, 1992; Cohen, 2003; Berinsky, 2009), because both partisanship and negative partisanship form critical parts of their social identity (Green et al., 2002;…”
"I think it, therefore it's true": Effects of self-perceived objectivity on hiring discrimination. (2007, background): “Another way to assess the deliberateness of hiring evaluations involves examining the correlation between participants’ ‘‘thought valence’’ and their final hiring evaluation (see Cacioppo et al., 1986; Chaiken & Maheswaran, 1994; Cohen, 2003).”
Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk (2008, background): “Accordingly, individuals are motivated, unconsciously, to conform all manner of attitudes, including factual beliefs, to ones that are dominant within their self-defining reference groups (Cohen 2003; Giner-Sorolla and Chaiken 1997).”
Culture and Identity-Protective Cognition: Explaining the White Male Effect in Risk Perception (2007, background): “…includes experiments that show that resistance to information that challenges beliefs dominant within subjects’ groups can be negated through interventions that affirm subjects’ sense of self-esteem and, in particular, that affirm subjects’ group-based identity (Cohen 2003; Cohen et al. in press).”
Tracing the threads: How five moral concerns (especially Purity) help explain culture war attitudes (2012, neutral): “‘‘liberals’’ for a person who self-identifies as a liberal, ‘‘Democrats’’ for a person who self-identifies as a ‘‘Democrat’’) stands on that issue (Cohen, 2003; Malka & Lelkes, 2010).”
Forming attitudes that predict future behavior: a meta-analysis of the attitude-behavior relation. (2006, background): “…of thought No. attitude reports or expressions Direct experience Motivation Ability Outcome relevance Value relevance Need for cognition Concentration Information repetition G. L. Cohen (2003) Information congruent with participants political affiliation with or without a dissimilar source 1.”
The Effects of Issue Salience, Elite Influence, and Policy Content on Public Opinion (2016, background): “…while a considerable body of research suggests that many individuals rely heavily on party cues to inform their political attitudes (G. L. Cohen, 2003; Popkin, 1994; Rahn, 1993), recent work argues to the contrary—policy information does influence attitudes (Bullock, 2011), and this…”