The Role of Conversation in Developing Accurate Political Perceptions: A Multilevel Social Network Approach

摘要: We employed social network data from 25 randomly sampled voluntary associations to understand the factors associated with accurate perceptions of candidate preferences group members. analyzed relationships at dyadic level, but also considered overall accuracy by each ego all alters (“perceptiveness”) and perception (“explicitness”) regarding using multilevel modeling techniques. found low levels on average, high variability differential patterns prediction perceptiveness explicitness. There was a strong, consistent link between frequency communication both aggregate which moderated homophily political within group.