There is now ample evidence documenting the growth of affective polarization: voters habitually treat their political opponents as a stigmatized out-group. The phenomenon manifests itself in the form of unfavorable evaluations of the opposition party and its leaders, aversion to social contact with partisans from the other side, and in indicators of implicit or sub-conscious prejudice. Most tellingly, partisans willingly discriminate against their opponents in a variety of behavioral settings. In this talk, Shanto Iyengar reports new research showing that increased partisan animus is attribut…
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