Posted on 06/13/2025 2:17:46 AM PDT by grundle
Abstract
We apply a newly developed attitude network-modelling technique (Response-Item Network, or ResIN) to study attitude–identity relationships in the context of hot–button issues that polarize the current US-American electorate. The properties of the network–method allow us to simultaneously depict differences in the structural organization of attitudes between groups and to explore the relevance of organized attitude–systems for group identity management. Individuals based on a sample of US-American crowd workers (N = 396) and the representative 2020 ANES data set (N = 8280), we model an attitude network with two conflictive partisan belief-systems. In the first step, we demonstrate that the structural properties of the attitude-network provide substantial information about latent partisan identities, thereby revealing which attitudes ‘belong’ to specific groups. In a second step, we evaluate the potential of attitudes to communicate identity-relevant information. Results from a vignette study suggest that people rely on their mental representations of attitude-identity links to structure and evaluate their social environment. By highlighting functional interdependences between (macro level) attitude structures and identity management, the presented findings help advancing the understanding of attitude-identity dynamics and socio-political cleavages.
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A lot of very heavy thinking going on right there. Makes my head hurt. I yam what i yam.
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Been looking into this for last several years. Highly interested.
There are a lot of ways to be a productive member of society. Grifting is grifting.
This is actually a very important paper. When one group aligns with a Marxist ideology and identifies itself as hating everyone who does not agree with Marxism and makes them an enemy, those not in the group also respond by defining their group as along a few characteristics, basically do you show signs of Marxism [hating me] or not. Sikhs, Christians, Buddhists, and coders, for instance, don’t automatically see each other as the enemy but they do see the left, who hates them, as the enemy. The so-called right, those who hate the left, are consequently a pretty diverse group. It’s a pretty fundamental point of political theory actually.
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