scholarly journals Correcting mistakes: cognitive dissonance and political attitudes in Sweden and the United States

Public Choice ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 153 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 235-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Elinder
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Learning to Detain Asylum Seekers and the Growth of Mass Immigration Detention in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Smita Ghosh ◽  
Mary Hoopes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Component ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Important Shift

Drawing upon an analysis of congressional records and media coverage from 1981 to 1996, this article examines the growth of mass immigration detention. It traces an important shift during this period: while detention began as an ad hoc executive initiative that was received with skepticism by the legislature, Congress was ultimately responsible for entrenching the system over objections from the agency. As we reveal, a critical component of this evolution was a transformation in Congress’s perception of asylum seekers. While lawmakers initially decried their detention, they later branded them as dangerous. Lawmakers began describing asylum seekers as criminals or agents of infectious diseases in order to justify their detention, which then cleared the way for the mass detention of arriving migrants more broadly. Our analysis suggests that they may have emphasized the dangerousness of asylum seekers to resolve the dissonance between their theoretical commitments to asylum and their hesitance to welcome newcomers. In addition to this distinctive form of cognitive dissonance, we discuss a number of other implications of our research, including the ways in which the new penology framework figured into the changing discourse about detaining asylum seekers.

POLITICAL ATTITUDES OF STUDENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, TURKEY AND NORTH CYPRUS

Milletleraras ◽  
1982 ◽  
pp. 001-022
Author(s):  
Eddie J. GIRDNER ◽  
Russel EISENMAN ◽  
Sevgin AKIŞ
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
North Cyprus

Field Experiments on Political Behavior

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter John
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Behavior ◽  
Voter Turnout ◽  
External Validity ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Political Attitudes ◽  
The United States ◽  
Causal Relationships ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The U.S

Field experiments allow researchers on political behavior to test causal relationships between mobilization and a range of outcomes, in particular, voter turnout. These studies have rapidly increased in number since 2000, many assessing the impact of nonpartisan Get-Out-the-Vote (GOTV) campaigns. A more recent wave of experiments assesses ways of persuading voters to change their choice of party or alter their social and political attitudes. Many studies reveal positive impacts for these interventions, especially for GOTV. However, there are far fewer trials carried out outside the United States, which means it is hard to confirm external validity beyond the U.S. context, even though many comparative experiments reproduce U.S. findings. Current studies, both in the United States and elsewhere, are growing in methodological sophistication and are leveraging new ways of measuring political behavior and attitudes.

scholarly journals Can't Let It Go: Hate in Interpersonal Relationships

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Aumer ◽  
Anne Cathrine Krebs Bahn ◽  
Cortney Janicki ◽  
Nicolas Guzman ◽  
Natalie Pierson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Cognitive Dissonance ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
The United States ◽  
Personal Relationships ◽  
Relationship Length ◽  
As Relationship ◽  
The Relationship

Theories concerning hatred in personal relationships lack empirical evidence. These two studies address the need to provide empirical information about how hate works in interpersonal, loving relationships. Effort justification theory (Aronson & Mills, 1959) suggests that past hate may have a beneficial function in relationships that remain together; however, if hate is a truly destructive motivation (Rempel & Burris, 2005), this hate may have a lasting irreconcilable impact on the quality of the relationship. By surveying people in both the United States and Norway about their personal loving relationships, we discovered that hatred leaves a lasting deleterious impression on interpersonal relationships. People are more likely to report less intimacy, satisfaction, and love with people they have previously hated. Furthermore, effort justification and cognitive dissonance, when measured as relationship length, was observed in the report of higher commitment to those previously hated. Future assessments of relationship quality should consider measuring hatred and length of relationship.

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