{"pk":25484,"title":"Tracking the Response Dynamics of Implicit Partisan Biases","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Despite widespread political conspiracy theories about Presidents\nBarack Obama and George W. Bush, a majority of partisans\ncontinue to distance themselves from such beliefs. Even\nso, the ideological biases that drive conspiratorial thinking\nmay be hard to overcome. In this study, we examine the unintentional\nendorsement of conspiratorial beliefs as revealed\nin movement dynamics. We track the cursor movements of\nRepublicans and Democrats as they click target regions on\ntheir computer screens, ostensibly providing bias-free opinions\n(e.g., clicking “FALSE” upon reading “Barack Obama was\nborn in Kenya”). However, during these response movements,\nwe find inhibition and movement attraction to regions of the\nscreen where a competitor response is located (e.g., “TRUE”\nfor the “birther” conspiracy). These dynamics are not present\nfor general conspiracies or political knowledge items. Though\nboth Republicans and Democrats show evidence of implicit biases,\nchanges in the strength of competition also reveal key\nasymmetrical differences.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"response dynamics; implicit beliefs; political\npsychology; social cognition"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8rt5785h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Nicholas","middle_name":"D","last_name":"Duran","name_suffix":"","institution":"School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University","department":""},{"first_name":"Stephen","middle_name":"","last_name":"Nicholson","name_suffix":"","institution":"Department of Political Science\nUniversity of California, Merced","department":""},{"first_name":"Rick","middle_name":"","last_name":"Dale","name_suffix":"","institution":"Cognitive and Information Sciences\nUniversity of California, Merced","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2015-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/25484/galley/15108/download/"}]}