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- Title
Consensus Cues, Issue Salience and Policy Preferences: An Experimental Investigation.
- Authors
Panagopoulos, Costas; Harrison, Brian
- Abstract
A growing literature on social norms suggests that individuals' attitudes and behaviors often conform to perceptions of what people normally think or do in a situation. These consensus cues have been shown to have substantial effects on attitudes and opinions but less is known about the conditions under which these effects are most likely. In this study, we extend the literature on social norms to examine the effects of group consensus cues on attitudes toward public policies of differing salience to the public. Using the results of a survey experiment imbedded in the 2008 Cooperative Congressional Election Study, our findings suggest group consensus cues (and as a result, social norms) have significant effects on attitudes toward public policies, but these effects appear to be restricted to low salience issues.
- Subjects
CONSENSUS (Social sciences); SOCIAL norms; GOVERNMENT policy -- Social aspects; SOCIAL attitudes; METACOGNITION; SELF-perception
- Publication
North American Journal of Psychology, 2016, Vol 18, Issue 2, p405
- ISSN
1527-7143
- Publication type
Article