Examining Partisan Motivated Reasoning in the Context of Policy Supported by Independents

• In Event: Reasoning Without Party

Brief Overview

Utilizing an experiment, I seek to determine whether out-party hostility extends to Independents or others outside the mainstream party system. I seek to determine if those with similar ideological positions are viewed the same as co-partisans.

Author

• Julia Valdes, University of California, Irvine