Left Threatened by Right: Political Intergroup Bias in the Contemporary Italian Context

Frontiers in Psychology

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Michael Schepisi¹  Giuseppina Porciello¹  Ilaria Bufalari²  Salvatore Maria Aglioti¹  Maria Serena Panasiti¹ 

[1] Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome;Santa Lucia Foundation;Department of Psychology of Developmental Processes and Socialization, Sapienza University of Rome

关键词: political intergroup bias;    ideological conflict hypothesis;    personalized politics;    perceived threat;    entitativity;    agentivity;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00026

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

Using different evaluation targets (i.e., politicians’ pictures, ideological words, items referring to features attributed to political ingroup/outgroup) we characterized the intergroup bias among political groups in the Italian context (Study 1-2-3) and tested a model that may account for the bias itself (Study 3). For all evaluation targets, left-wing participants - compared to right-wing participants – showed a greater intergroup bias, expressing more negative emotions toward the outgroup. The process was influenced by a greater perceived threat of the outgroup. Conversely, right-wing participants expressed the bias only when presented with ideological words. Our results provide a detailed description of how intergroup bias in Italy is differently expressed by the two ideological groups depending on the targets used to represent the political counterpart. Moreover, the results show that the stronger bias expressed by left-wing participants is driven by perceived threat of the outgroup.

【 授权许可】

CC BY