Department of Psychology, The Pennsylvania State University.
Department of Psychology, University of Virginia.
Emotion. 2022 Apr;22(3):466-478. doi: 10.1037/emo0000820. Epub 2020 Jun 29.
To what extent are ideological differences in compassion real or exaggerated, and who is more likely to engage in stereotyping about such differences? In five studies, including three online studies and two field studies of voters at the Iowa Caucus and U.S. Presidential Election in 2016, we found evidence for political stereotyping about compassion. Although Democratic and Republican participants did not consistently rate themselves as feeling different amounts of compassion on a single-item self-assessment, there was a stereotype that the average Democrat/liberal is more compassionate than the average Republican/conservative. Importantly, this stereotype exaggerated the extent of self-reported differences in compassion across parties in these samples, and Democratic participants engaged in stronger stereotype exaggeration. These results suggest that although there can be ideological variability in compassion, the perceived difference may exaggerate this reality. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).
在多大程度上，同情心的意识形态差异是真实存在的还是被夸大了，谁更有可能对这种差异进行刻板印象？在五项研究中，包括三项在线研究和 2016 年爱荷华州党团会议和美国总统选举的两项实地研究，我们发现了关于同情心的政治刻板印象的证据。尽管民主党的参与者和共和党的参与者在单次自我评估中并不总是一致地给自己评估出不同程度的同情心，但有一种刻板印象认为，平均而言，民主党/自由派比平均共和党/保守派更有同情心。重要的是，这种刻板印象夸大了这些样本中党派之间自我报告的同情心差异的程度，而且民主党的参与者表现出更强的刻板印象夸大。这些结果表明，尽管同情心可能存在意识形态上的差异，但感知到的差异可能会夸大这种现实。
