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SUBMITTER: Petersen MB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4444316 | biostudies-literature | 2015
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Petersen Michael Bang MB Giessing Ann A Nielsen Jesper J
PloS one 20150526 5
People are biased partisans: they tend to agree with policies from political parties they identify with, independent of policy content. Here, we investigate how physiological reactions to political parties shape bias. Using changes in galvanic skin conductance responses to the visual presentation of party logos, we obtained an implicit and physiological measure of the affective arousal associated with political parties. Subsequently, we exposed subjects to classical party cue experiments where t ...[more]