Humanizing the Other: How Interpersonal Relationships Mediate Affective Polarization

• In Event: Political Psychology of Affective Polarization

Brief Overview

In this paper, I experimentally prompt survey respondents to consider friends and family who support the other party, finding that interpersonal relationships lessen dislike of the other party by humanizing the other side.

Author

• Jenna Pedersen, Washington University in St Louis