An Empirical Examination of Two Theories of Political Perception
An Empirical Examination of Two Theories of Political Perception
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两种政治感知理论的实证检验
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1988
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Tim Nanneman
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D. Granberg;Jeff A. Kasmer;Tim Nanneman
vance our understanding of this phenomenon. This article describes these theories and analyzes their robustness by deriving and testing distinctive hypotheses from each theory. Displacement theory. The displacement theory of political perception originated in studies of the effect of attitude on social judgment processes i.e., the effect of affect on cognition (Sherif and Hovland 1~61; Sherif, Sherif, and Nebergall 1965). In this research, the identity of the communicator was unspecified. Assimilation (perceptual distortion of the position of the communication in the direction of the person’s own attitude) was expected when the communication was at least moderately ambiguous and fell within the person’s latitude of acceptance. Contrast (perceptual distortion of the position of the communication away from the person’s own attitude) was expected when the communication was moderately ambiguous and fell within the person’s latitude of rejection. No systematic displacement effect was anticipated for an unambiguous communication, and a pervasive assimilation effect was expected in perception of a highly ambiguous communication. Even though assimilation and contrast were first observed in psychophysical judgments, egoinvolvement was later posited as an important factor. Assimilation and