Affective polarization and misinformation belief

Jenke, Libby

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Affective polarization and misinformation belief

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Jenke, Libby·2024·Political Behavior

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While affective polarization has been shown to have serious social consequences, there is little evidence regarding its effects on political attitudes and behavior such as policy preferences, voting, or political information accrual. This paper provides evidence that affective polarization impacts misinformation belief, arguing that citizens with higher levels of affective polarization are more likely to believe in-party-congruent misinformation and less likely to believe out-party-congruent misinformation. The argument is supported by data from the ANES 2020 Social Media Study and the ANES 2020 Time Series Study, which speaks to the generalizability of the relationship. Additionally, a survey experiment provides evidence that the relationship is causal. The results hold among Democrats and Republicans and are independent of the effects of partisan strength and ideological extremity. Furthermore, the relationship between affective polarization and misinformation belief is exacerbated by political sophistication rather than tempered by it, implying that education will not solve the issue. The results speak to the need for work on reducing affective polarization.

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Factual belief polarization may be fueled by increasing levels of affective polarization.
“Likewise, factual belief polarization may also be fueled by increasing levels of affective polarization (Broockman et al., 2023;Jenke, 2023).”
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Observational research points out that factual belief polarization and affective polarization often go together.
“observational research points out that factual belief polarization and affective polarization often go together (Rekker and Harteveld, 2022;Jenke, 2023).”
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Authors: Jenke, L.
Affiliations: University of Houston (US)
Corresponding author: Jenke, Libby
ORCID: Jenke, Libby
Venue: Political Behavior
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2023-01-18
Volume: 46
Issue: 2
Pages: 825-884
ISSN: 0190-9320 (ISSN-L)
1573-6687
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-022-09851-w
PMC: PMC9848725
OpenAlex: W4317358010
Cited by: 85
References: 75
Citations by year: 2026: 25 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 28 · 2023: 10
FWCI: 36.51
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Licence: www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (tdm)
www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (vor)
Locations: Political Behavior (publishedVersion)
PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders: University of Houston (2091-H0124-B0423-I0504815)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Misinformation and Its Impacts
Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Social Sciences › Communication › Social Media and Politics
Keywords: affective polarization, misinformation beliefs, political information, political sophistication, ideological extremity, political attitudes, social media

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