Exploring the Psychological Foundations of Ideological and Social Sorting
<|begin_of_text|><|start_header_id|>system<|end_header_id|> You are a research archivist expert in dataset metadata. Answer the question truthfully.  <|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>user<|end_header_id|> Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Americans are sorting ideologically: liberals and conservatives are more likely to respectively identify as Democrats and Republicans. They are sorting socially as well: partisans like and trust copartisans more than opposing partisans. Existing explanations for these phenomena rely on exogenous factors, such as elite polarization. But exogenous explanations cannot help explaining variation in sorting across individuals. We argue that psychological characteristics can help explain the tendency to sort ideologically or socially. Specifically, we investigate an individual’s responsiveness to internal values versus normative social pressures as a determinant of sorting. We test this theory with several nationally representative surveys, as well as one survey experiment, and find strong support that an individual’s own tendency to respond t' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.<|eot_id|><|start_header_id|>assistant<|end_header_id|> {"Answer" : ["Sorting, Self-Monitoring, Ideology"]} <|eot_id|>
 Here is the Description of a dataset. Description:'Americans are sorting ideologically: liberals and conservatives are more likely to respectively identify as Democrats and Republicans. They are sorting socially as well: partisans like and trust copartisans more than opposing partisans. Existing explanations for these phenomena rely on exogenous factors, such as elite polarization. But exogenous explanations cannot help explaining variation in sorting across individuals. We argue that psychological characteristics can help explain the tendency to sort ideologically or socially. Specifically, we investigate an individual’s responsiveness to internal values versus normative social pressures as a determinant of sorting. We test this theory with several nationally representative surveys, as well as one survey experiment, and find strong support that an individual’s own tendency to respond t' . Please return only a json list of at most 3 Keywords corresponding to the Description:.
Americans are sorting ideologically: liberals and conservatives are more likely to respectively identify as Democrats and Republicans. They are sorting socially as well: partisans like and trust copartisans more than opposing partisans. Existing explanations for these phenomena rely on exogenous factors, such as elite polarization. But exogenous explanations cannot help explaining variation in sorting across individuals. We argue that psychological characteristics can help explain the tendency to sort ideologically or socially. Specifically, we investigate an individual’s responsiveness to internal values versus normative social pressures as a determinant of sorting. We test this theory with several nationally representative surveys, as well as one survey experiment, and find strong support that an individual’s own tendency to respond t
Sorting, Self-Monitoring, Ideology