How Ambient Cues Facilitate Political Segregation

摘要: People increasingly self-segregate into politically homogeneous communities. How they do this remains unclear. We propose that people use ambient cues correlated with political values to infer whether would like live in those test hypothesis five studies. In Studies 1 (n = 3,543) and 2 5,609), participants rated community cues; liberals conservatives' preferences differed. 3a 1,643) 3b 1,840), read about communities liberal or conservative cues. Even without explicit information the communities' politics, preferred congenial Study 4 282), wanted leave uncongenial 5 370), selectively navigated their a way. These studies suggest peoples' perceptions of can be shaped by subtle, not necessarily political, may facilitate growing segregation.