{"pk":27784,"title":"Partisan Representations: Partisan Differences in Semantic Representations and their Role in Attitude Judgements","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We outline a new method to explore di↵erences in se-mantic representations between groups and apply it toa novel domain where we might expect to find such dif-ferences: politics. We hypothesize and find confirma-tory evidence that individuals of opposite partisanship,as measured by party identification, have di↵erent se-mantic representations. We further evaluate whetherdi↵erences in representations are predictive of attitudejudgments as long suggested by constructivist theoriesof attitudes from social psychology. We find di↵erencesare indeed predictive of attitudes even after controllingfor other strongly predictive covariates (party identifica-tion and ideology). In discussing our results we sketchout a broader theory of the role of semantic memory inattitude judgments.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Semantic memory"},{"word":"individual differences"},{"word":"attitudes"},{"word":"Politics"},{"word":"concepts"},{"word":"modeling"}],"section":"Publication-based-Talks","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/08j9j72x","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"J","last_name":"Halpern","name_suffix":"","institution":"NYU","department":""},{"first_name":"Pedro","middle_name":"L.K.","last_name":"Rodriguez","name_suffix":"","institution":"NYU","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2018-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/27784/galley/17424/download/"}]}