The Better Angels of Our Nature: How the Antiprejudice Norm Affects Policy and Party Preferences in Great Britain and Germany
The Better Angels of Our Nature: How the Antiprejudice Norm Affects Policy and Party Preferences in Great Britain and Germany
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DOI：
10.1111/ajps.12030
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发表时间：
2013-10-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth
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作者：
Blinder, Scott;Ford, Robert;Ivarsflaten, Elisabeth
关于种族和移民政治的公众舆论的现有研究强调了对少数群体的偏见或偏见的作用。我们认为，社会规范的偏见，并遵守它的个人动机，是从先前的分析忽略的关键因素。在当代西方社会，大多数公民都收到了强烈的信号，即偏见在规范上是不可接受的。我们证明，许多多数群体的个人已经内化了一种控制偏见思想和行动的动机，这种动机以可预测的方式影响他们的政治行为。我们介绍了捕捉这种动机的措施，发展其影响的假设，并在英国和德国进行的三个独立的实验和非实验调查研究中测试这些假设。我们的研究结果支持政治行为的双重过程模型，这表明虽然许多选民怀有负面的刻板印象，但他们也会努力按照他们本性中更好的天使行事，特别是当某些背景信号存在时。
Existing research on public opinion related to race and immigration politics emphasizes the role of prejudice or bias against minority groups. We argue that the social norm against prejudice, and individual motivations to comply with it, are crucial elements omitted from prior analyses. In contemporary Western societies, most citizens receive strong signals that prejudice is not normatively acceptable. We demonstrate that many majority-group individuals have internalized a motivation to control prejudiced thoughts and actions and that this motivation influences their political behavior in predictable ways. We introduce measures capturing this motivation, develop hypotheses about its influence, and test these hypotheses in three separate experimental and nonexperimental survey studies conducted in Britain and Germany. Our findings support a dual-process model of political behavior suggesting that while many voters harbor negative stereotypes, they alsoparticularly when certain contextual signals are presentstrive to act in accordance with the better angels of their natures.