Partisan Bias in Responses to Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Male Politicians

Abstract: Across two studies, we tested whether evaluations of sexual misconduct allegations against male politicians are made in a partisan biased manner. First, we investigated the likelihood a sexual misconduct allegation made by a female staffer was perceived as legitimate by Democratic and Republican participants when the accused politician’s party affiliation was aligned (versus unaligned) with the participant’s own affiliation (Study 1). We also tested whether partisan bias was conditional on the strength of the participant’s expressive partisanship (Study 2). In Study 1, 182 Democratic and 159 Republican affiliates (N = 341), recruited via Amazon Mechanical Turk, were randomly allocated to one of three conditions (Democratic, Republican, or unaffiliated accused politician). Findings indicated that Republican participants were less likely than Democrats to perceive a sexual misconduct allegation as legitimate, irrespective of the politician’s party affiliation. Nonetheless, participan.... https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/6371

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Partisan Bias in Responses to Sexual Misconduct Allegations Against Male Politicians ; volume:10 ; number:2 ; day:15 ; month:12 ; year:2022 ; Journal of social and political psychology ; 10, Heft 2 (15.12.2022)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Clarke, Edward J. R. ; Klas, Anna ; Lizzio-Wilson, Morgana ; Kothe, Emily J.

Further information

• DOI: 10.5964/jspp.6371
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023012104093148894042
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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