Luiza Almeida Santos
A5008227038- Social and Intergroup Psychology
- Social Media and Politics
- Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Media Influence and Health
- Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Electoral Systems and Political Participation
Stanford University
2022-2024
Scholars warn that partisan divisions in the mass public threaten health of American democracy. We conducted a megastudy (
In polarized political environments, partisans tend to deploy empathy parochially, furthering division. We propose that belief in the usefulness of cross-partisan empathy-striving understand other people with whom one disagrees politically-promotes out-group and has powerful ramifications for both intra- interpersonal processes. Across four studies (total N = 4,748), we examined these predictions online college samples using surveys, social-network analysis, preregistered experiments,...
Abstract Undemocratic practices, such as voter suppression and election interference, threaten democracies worldwide. Across four studies (N = 4,350), we find that informational motivational factors drive Americans’ support for practices. Partisans drastically overestimate how much opponents undemocratic which decreases people's willingness to defend democracy themselves (S1–S2). One remedy this dynamic is inform people about the extent their rivals actually democracy, but in polarized...
Discrimination in the evaluation of others is a key cause social inequality around world. However, relatively little known about psychological interventions that can be used to prevent biased evaluations. The limited evidence exists on these strategies spread across many methods and populations, making it difficult generate reliable best practices effective contexts. In present work, we held research contest solicit with goal reducing discrimination based physical attractiveness using...