Research explores how biased perceptions may drive erosion of democratic values in US SciReports
. This growing body of work suggests that a generalizable pattern whereby exagerated negative perceptions about what outgroup members believe and how they behave are associated with the tendency to justify one’s own negative attitudes and behaviors. Such a tendency may also help to explain democratic norm errosion.
Just as psychological biases lead partisans to attribute negative motives and beliefs to their opponents, we reasoned that similar biases may lead Democrats and Republicans to believe that members of their own party value democratic principles more than do members of their opposing party. Such biases might be quite pronounced given recent high-profile accusations by political elites in the United States about their opponents’ anti-democratic behavior.
In the present research, we test our ideas in two studies—one preregistered—with self-identified Democrats and Republicans randomly sampled from a nationally representative panel maintained by YouGov. Here, we outline our core research questions, which themselves articulate our broader theoretical model. We first sought to replicate prior research documenting robust support for democratic principles among both Democrats and Republicans.
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