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New research done in the Arizona State University Department of Psychology suggests that affective polarization in the United States is not as simple as it is often portrayed. While the American political world is shown as being increasingly divisive, such that people tend to like their own political party while loathing the other, this may not paint a complete picture.

Graduate student researcher Adi Wiezel recently published a study in American Politics Research that aimed to unpack the complex puzzle of people’s partisan feelings. Wiezel, a social psychology doctoral candidate with a master’s degree in political science, partnered with fellow PhD candidate John Wagner, a political scientist from the University of New Mexico, to investigate people’s partisan feelings and their relationship to political trust.

“When we talk about political polarization in the affective sense, a lot of what we talk about tends to be this animus or dislike that we have toward the opposite party. So if you're a Democrat, it's how much you'd dislike Republicans and vice versa. Additionally, it is how positive you feel about your own party,” Wiezel said.

Wiezel and Wagner were interested in further understanding the statistical breakdown of the American population in terms of their attitudes toward the different parties. They took data from self-reported Democrats and Republicans who participated in the American National Election Studies in 2016 and 2020, and separated groups based on how they felt toward their own political party, and the opposing political party.