Recent theorizing on deliberative democracy has put political listening at the core of meaningful democratic deliberation. In the present experiment (N = 827), we investigated whether news media can improve diverse political listening in the United States via a reduction in party cue salience. Although Republican (Democratic) participants showed a strong preference for listening to speeches given by Republican (Democratic) politicians when party cues were highly salient, this bias in selective political listening was reduced or even absent when news items provided no or only low-salience cues. Conditional process analysis indicated that (automatically activated) implicit and (overtly expressed) explicit party attitudes mediated this effect. There are important implications: Current journalism practices tend to exacerbate tribal us-vs-them thinking by emphasizing partisan cues, nudging citizens toward not listening to political ideas from the other political camp. A more helpful news-choice architecture tones down partisan language, nudging citizens toward more diverse political listening.

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为什么我们停止倾听另一方：新闻报道中的党派暗示如何破坏民主的协商基础

最近关于协商民主的理论化将政治倾听置于有意义的民主协商的核心。在本实验中 (N = 827)，我们调查了新闻媒体是否可以通过减少政党线索的显着性来改善美国的多元化政治聆听。尽管共和党（民主党）参与者在党派线索高度突出时表现出强烈偏好收听共和党（民主党）政治家的演讲，但当新闻项目不提供或仅提供低显着性线索时，这种选择性政治聆听的偏见会减少甚至不存在. 条件过程分析表明，（自动激活的）隐含的和（公开表达的）明确的政党态度介导了这种影响。有重要的意义：当前的新闻实践往往会通过强调党派暗示、促使公民不听取其他政治阵营的政治观点来加剧部落的“我们对他们”思维。一个更有帮助的新闻选择架构淡化了党派语言，促使公民转向更多样化的政治倾听。