Politically motivated aesthetic judgments

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.31234/osf.io/93rhz ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Arvid Erlandsson ◽

Jennifer Rosander ◽

Artur Nilsson

Keyword(s):

Willingness To Pay ◽

Motivated Reasoning ◽

Social Distancing ◽

Ingroup Outgroup ◽

Aesthetic Judgments

Are people motivated to feel that clothes worn by members of their political ingroup (outgroup) are more (less) beautiful and valuable? Building on research on politically motivated judgments, affective polarization, and social distancing, this study investigated how aesthetic judgments about the design and color of clothes, and willingness to pay for identical clothes, changed among Swedes (N=638) after they learnt that the clothes were worn by politicians from their most- or least-liked party. The results supported both a negative outgroup effect (i.e., clothes associated with the least-liked party became less attractive) and a positive ingroup effect (i.e., clothes associated with the most-liked party became more attractive and valuable). Clothes worn by non-politicians were evaluated similarly after the identity of the person wearing them was revealed. Particularly the positive ingroup effect was stronger among rightists than leftists, consistent with theoretical accounts that posit ideological asymmetries in motivated reasoning and relational motivations.

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Challenges to Learners in Interpreting Self as Other, Post COVID-19

Challenges ◽

10.3390/challe12020031 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 31

Author(s):

Carol Nash

Keyword(s):

The Body ◽

Self Directed Learning ◽

Social Distancing ◽

Directed Learning ◽

Teachers And Parents ◽

Ingroup Outgroup ◽

Interpersonal Space ◽

At Home

The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted continuing constraints on the ability of students to interact with teachers and peers. Regarding this imposed segregation, what has not been considered is the effect of learners seeing self as other. With respect to augmentations of their body in interpersonal space by, (1) extending the body through witnessing themselves regularly in videoconferencing learning sessions, (2) isolating the body as a result of spending time apart from peers, social distancing at home, and (3) protecting the body through required mask-wearing where learners now consider who they represent in a mask, there are three important ways in which learners have felt unable to recognize themselves as they did pre-COVID-19. This migration from self to other, involving ingroup/outgroup distinctions, will be investigated from a number of perspectives—both sociological and psychological. Why the turning of self into other is problematic to the psyche will be discussed, as will the possible consequences for this ongoing lack of learner recognition long term, including focus on the new norms or embracing self-directed learning. Based on this analysis, the type of mentorship by teachers and parents that may be appropriate for helping learners contend with these changes will be recommended.

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Subjective Time Preference and Willingness to Pay for an Energy-Saving Durable Good

Zeitschrift für Sozialpsychologie ◽

10.1024//0044-3514.32.3.133 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 32 (3) ◽

pp. 133-141 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Gerrit Antonides ◽

Sophia R. Wunderink

Keyword(s):

Willingness To Pay ◽

Energy Saving ◽

Subjective Time ◽

Durable Good ◽

Discount Function ◽

Hyperbolic Discount ◽

The One ◽

Two Parameter ◽

Difference Effect ◽

Better Than

Summary: Different shapes of individual subjective discount functions were compared using real measures of willingness to accept future monetary outcomes in an experiment. The two-parameter hyperbolic discount function described the data better than three alternative one-parameter discount functions. However, the hyperbolic discount functions did not explain the common difference effect better than the classical discount function. Discount functions were also estimated from survey data of Dutch households who reported their willingness to postpone positive and negative amounts. Future positive amounts were discounted more than future negative amounts and smaller amounts were discounted more than larger amounts. Furthermore, younger people discounted more than older people. Finally, discount functions were used in explaining consumers' willingness to pay for an energy-saving durable good. In this case, the two-parameter discount model could not be estimated and the one-parameter models did not differ significantly in explaining the data.

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