Ideological uncertainty and investment of the self in politics
Ideological uncertainty and investment of the self in politics
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意识形态的不确定性和自我对政治的投资
DOI：
10.1016/j.jesp.2019.01.005
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Vanessa Sawicki
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作者：
J. Vitriol;M. R. Tagar;Christopher M. Federico;Vanessa Sawicki
意识形态取向可以为公民的政治判断提供有效的启发。因此，人们可能会认为，意识形态的不确定性会导致个人更深入地参与政治领域，以便获得足够程度的主观确定性，即他们所采取的意识形态取向是“正确的”。然而，鉴于政治领域固有的复杂性和模糊性，我们认为意识形态的不确定性反而会破坏政治效率和利益，从而促使个人脱离和退出参与选举政治。同时使用相关和实验的方法，我们进行了四项研究的背景下，两个选举背景下的方便和代表性的样本来检验这一假设。研究1（N= 343）和研究2（N= 1054）表明，意识形态的不确定性与2012年和2016年美国总统选举中政治参与和参与水平的降低是相互关联的。研究3（N= 170）和研究4（N= 798）复制和扩展研究1和2的结果，通过实验操纵意识形态的不确定性，使用原始和创新的假反馈范式。我们证明了意识形态的不确定性对政治参与的因果关系（独立于人口变量，政治知识，意识形态的极端和信念），并发现这是特别明显的个人谁反映他们的政治判断和行为的意义，他们的政治取向。考虑了对政治选择和行为的影响。
Ideological orientation may provide some citizens with an efficient heuristic for guiding their political judgment. Accordingly, one might expect that ideological uncertainty would lead individuals to engage more deeply with the political domain in order to acquire a sufficient level of subjective certainty that the ideological orientation they have adopted is the “right” one. Given the inherent complexity and ambiguity of the political realm, however, we propose that ideological uncertainty should instead undermine political efficacy and interest, thereby motivating individuals to disengage and withdrawal from participating in electoral politics. Using both correlational and experimental methods, we conduct four studies on both convenience and representative samples in the context of two electoral contexts to test this hypothesis. Study 1 (N= 343) and Study 2 (N= 1054) demonstrate that ideological uncertainty covaries with reduced levels of political engagement and participation in the 2012 and 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, respectively. Study 3 (N= 170) and Study 4 (N= 798) replicate and extend the results of Study 1 and 2 by experimentally manipulating ideological uncertainty using an original and innovative false-feedback paradigm. We demonstrate the causal effect of ideological uncertainty on political engagement (independent of demographic variables, political knowledge, and ideological extremity and conviction), and find that it is particularly pronounced among individuals who reflect on the meaning of their political judgment and behaviors for their political orientation. Implications for political choice and behavior are considered.
影响因子：
7.6
作者：
Greenwald, AG;McGhee, DE;Schwartz, JLK
通讯作者：
Schwartz, JLK
影响因子：
7.6
作者：
SETTERLUND, MB;NIEDENTHAL, PM
通讯作者：
NIEDENTHAL, PM
通过悖论来改变：利用自我验证来改变信念。
影响因子：
7.6
作者：
SwannJr,WB;Pelham,BW;Chidester,TR
通讯作者：
Chidester,TR