ABSTRACT

Attitude and belief similarity have long stood as topics of inquiry for social psychology. Recent research suggests that there might be meaningful differences across people in the extent to which they perceive and actually share others’ attitudes and beliefs. I outline research examining the relationship between political ideology and the perception and reality of attitude similarity. Specifically, I review research documenting that (a) conservatives perceive greater ingroup similarity than do liberals, (b) conservatives overestimate and liberals underestimate ingroup similarity, (c) liberals and conservatives both underestimate similarity to outgroup members, and (d) liberals possess more actual ingroup similarity than do conservatives on a national level. Collectively, this review contributes to understanding how political ideology relates to (perceived) attitude similarity.

摘要

态度和信念的相似性长期以来一直是社会心理学研究的主题。最近的研究表明，人们在感知和实际分享他人的态度和信念的程度上可能存在有意义的差异。我概述了研究，考察了政治意识形态与态度相似性的感知与现实之间的关系。具体而言，我审查研究文档化是：（a）保守感知更大群体内的相似性比DO自由主义者，（b）中保守高估和自由派低估内群的相似性，（c）中自由派和保守派都低估相似性外群体成员，并且（d）自由主义者具有更实际族内相似度要比国家一级的保守派高。总的来说，这篇评论有助于理解政治意识形态如何与（感知到的）态度相似性相关。