Gulliver's Politics: Conservatives Envision Potential Enemies as Readily Vanquished and Physically Small
Gulliver's Politics: Conservatives Envision Potential Enemies as Readily Vanquished and Physically Small
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DOI：
10.1177/1948550616679238
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发表时间：
2017-08-01
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Gomez, Angel
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作者：
Holbrook, Colin;Lopez-Rodriguez, Lucia;Gomez, Angel
政治保守派被广泛记录为将外群体成员视为敌对的，将意图模糊的个人视为恶意的，并倾向于积极解决群体间冲突。越来越多的文献表明，潜在的暴力对手是使用设想的物理尺寸/力量的尺寸来概括对手相对于自身或群体的战斗能力。综合这些计划，我们假设，与自由主义者相比，保守派会设想一个模糊的外群体目标更有可能构成威胁，但通过武力是可战胜的，因此不那么可怕。来自美国（研究1）和西班牙（研究2）的参与者评估了叙利亚难民，这是一个公众广泛怀疑包括恐怖分子的群体。正如预测的那样，在这两个社会中，保守派认为难民更有可能成为恐怖分子，而且在身体上不那么可怕。据推测，这种“格列佛效应”是由对每个社会通过积极的军事或警察措施挫败恐怖主义的能力的信心所介导的。
Political conservatives have been widely documented to regard out-group members as hostile, perceive individuals of ambiguous intent as malevolent, and favor aggressive solutions to intergroup conflict. A growing literature indicates that potential violent adversaries are represented using the dimensions of envisioned physical size/strength to summarize opponents' fighting capacities relative to the self or in-group. Integrating these programs, we hypothesized that, compared to liberals, conservatives would envision an ambiguous out-group target as more likely to pose a threat, yet as vanquishable through force, and thus as less formidable. Participants from the United States (Study 1) and Spain (Study 2) assessed Syrian refugees, a group that the public widely suspects includes terrorists. As predicted, in both societies, conservatives envisioned refugees as more likely to be terrorists and as less physically formidable. As hypothesized, this "Gulliver effect" was mediated by confidence in each society's capacity to thwart terrorism via aggressive military or police measures.