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Hennessey E, Feinberg M, Wilson AE. How political partisanship can shape memories and perceptions of identical protest events. PLoS One. 2021;16(11):e0259416doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259416.
Hennessey, E., Feinberg, M., & Wilson, A. E. (2021). How political partisanship can shape memories and perceptions of identical protest events. PloS one, 16(11), e0259416. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259416
Hennessey, Eden, et al. "How political partisanship can shape memories and perceptions of identical protest events." PloS one vol. 16,11 (2021): e0259416. doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259416
Hennessey E, Feinberg M, Wilson AE. How political partisanship can shape memories and perceptions of identical protest events. PLoS One. 2021 Nov 22;16(11):e0259416. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259416. eCollection 2021. PMID: 34807919; PMCID: PMC8608305.
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PLoS One. 2021 Nov 22;16(11):e0259416. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259416. eCollection 2021.

How political partisanship can shape memories and perceptions of identical protest events.

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Eden Hennessey, Matthew Feinberg, Anne E Wilson

Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychology, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
  2. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

PMID: 34807919 PMCID: PMC8608305 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259416

Abstract

It is well-recognized that increasingly polarized American partisans subscribe to sharply diverging worldviews. Can partisanship influence Americans to view the world around them differently from one another? In the current research, we explored partisans' recollections of objective events that occurred during identical footage of a real protest. All participants viewed the same 87-second compilation of footage from a Women's March protest. Trump supporters (vs. others) recalled seeing a greater number of negative protest tactics and events (e.g., breaking windows, burning things), even though many of these events did not occur. False perceptions among Trump supporters, in turn, predicted beliefs that the protesters' tactics were extreme, ultimately accounting for greater opposition to the movement and its cause. Our findings point to the possibility of a feedback loop wherein partisanship underlies different perceptions of the exact same politically relevant event, which in turn may allow observers to cling more tightly to their original partisan stance.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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