AUTHOR=Kacholia Suhan , Neuner Fabian Guy 

TITLE=Priming Partisan Identities and Support for Political Violence

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Political Science

VOLUME=Volume 4 - 2022

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/political-science/articles/10.3389/fpos.2022.835032

DOI=10.3389/fpos.2022.835032

ISSN=2673-3145

ABSTRACT=Individuals in the United State appear increasingly willing to support and justify political violence. This paper thus examines the relationship between partisan identity, negative personality, and support for political violence. We use priming manipulations to investigate whether activating positive partisan identity, negative partisan identity, instrumental partisan identity, and American national identity might lead to differences in reported support for political violence. While we uncover no effects of priming various identities on support for political violence, we replicate and extend previous research on its correlates. Specifically, we demonstrate how various measures of partisan identity strength as well as negative personality traits are correlated with acceptance of political violence.