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Politically Contaminated Clothes, Chocolates, and Charities: Distancing From Neutral Products Liked by Out-Group or In-Group Partisans
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Psychology. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-7875-269X
Linköping University, Department of Behavioural Sciences and Learning, Psychology. Linköping University, Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Univ Bergen, Norway.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0301-9095
Linköping University.
Stockholm Sch Econ, Sweden.
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2024 (English)In: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, ISSN 0146-1672, E-ISSN 1552-7433Article in journal (Refereed) Epub ahead of print
Abstract [en]

This research demonstrates that people distance themselves not just from out-group partisans or policies but also from completely neutral and apolitical consumer products that have been "contaminated" simply by being preferred by the political out-group. Using large representative samples of Swedish adults, we investigated how aesthetic judgments of clothes (Study 1), evaluations of chocolate bars (Study 2), and allocations to charitable organizations (Study 3) were influenced by a randomly assigned association between these products and the leader or supporters of the participant's least- or most-liked political party. Products liked by the least-liked party became less attractive in all studies; the results were mixed for products liked by the most-liked party. Study 4 found that the presence of in-group-observers increased distancing from products liked by the least-liked party, indicating that self-presentational concerns bolster political distancing. These results suggest that affective political polarization influences our lives more subtly and profoundly than previously known.

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC , 2024.
Keywords [en]
affective political polarization; social distancing; party over policy effect; political boycotting; social identity signaling
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Sociology (Excluding Social Work, Social Anthropology, Demography and Criminology)
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URN: urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-210149DOI: 10.1177/01461672241298390ISI: 001359121000001PubMedID: 39564762Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85209909514OAI: oai:DiVA.org:liu-210149DiVA, id: diva2:1917598
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Funding Agencies|Swedish Science Council [2022-02376]

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