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On Staying Open While Seeing Red: Predicting Open-Mindedness And Affect In Politics, Emily Hanson
On Staying Open While Seeing Red: Predicting Open-Mindedness And Affect In Politics, Emily Hanson
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation examines whether people who claim to be dispositionally open-minded, do in fact, demonstrate such open-mindedness when they are actually presented with political opinions that run counter to their own. In Study 1, participants rated their partisan identity and dispositional open-mindedness prior to reacting to a series of fictional Facebook posts that varied in both their political ideology and political extremity. The results of this study demonstrated that the most consistent predictor of �open� reactions (operationalized in terms of both cognitive judgements and affective reactions) to each type of Facebook post was whether it was congruent with the participants� …
The Effects Of Monitoring Expression And Outgroup Familiarity On Judgments Of Other-Race Interaction Partners, Katlin Bentley
The Effects Of Monitoring Expression And Outgroup Familiarity On Judgments Of Other-Race Interaction Partners, Katlin Bentley
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Research on emotion communication demonstrates that people are more accurate at recognizing emotion when evaluating members of one’s racial ingroup compared to assessments made for outgroups. It is unclear what leads us to make erroneous outgroup judgments. Two factors may play a central role in this process: judges’ attentiveness to and knowledge about partners’ group-specific expressive behaviors. In this project, I tested moderators of people’s ability to accurately detect emotions during an in-person interaction when paired with a same- or other-race partner. Findings indicate that when playing a cooperative game, people are surprisingly adept at accurately judging outgroup emotions, but …