• DOI:10.1037/0022-3514.85.5.808
Corpus ID: 10761726

Party over policy: The dominating impact of group influence on political beliefs.

@article{Cohen2003PartyOP,
  title={Party over policy: The dominating impact of group influence on political beliefs.},
  author={G. Cohen},
  journal={Journal of personality and social psychology},
  year={2003},
  volume={85 5},
  pages={
          808-22
        }
}

G. Cohen

Published 2003

Medicine, Psychology

Journal of personality and social psychology

Four studies demonstrated both the power of group influence in persuasion and people's blindness to it. Even under conditions of effortful processing, attitudes toward a social policy depended almost exclusively upon the stated position of one's political party. This effect overwhelmed the impact of both the policy's objective content and participants' ideological beliefs (Studies 1-3), and it was driven by a shift in the assumed factual qualities of the policy and in its perceived moral… CONTINUE READING

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