Naive Realism in the Unmarried Cohabitation Controversy in the United States

Andrea A. McCracken; Matt S. McGlone

Naive Realism in the Unmarried Cohabitation Controversy in the United States

McCracken, Andrea A. ^[1] ; McGlone, Matthew S. ^[2]
1. [1] Gonzaga University
  
  Gonzaga University
  
  Estados Unidos
2. [2] University of Texas at Austin
  
  University of Texas at Austin
  
  Estados Unidos
Localización: Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, ISSN-e 1981-6472, Vol. 10, Nº. 1, 2016, págs. 36-55
Idioma: inglés
DOI: 10.5964/ijpr.v10i1.202
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Resumen
- We explored the role of “naïve realism” in perceptions of attitudinal differences between proponents and opponents of unmarried cohabitation (UC) in the United States. Participants were presented with UC vignettes, asked to describe their own impressions of the couple in each scenario, and then to speculate about the impressions of the typical UC proponent and opponent. A comparison of these impressions yielded a pattern of false polarization in their perceptions, such that partisans’ self-reported sympathy was reliably more similar than the degree of sympathy either side attributed to the other. Partisans also exhibited egocentric bias regarding the basis for each side’s stances on UC. The relevance of this misperception and faulty assumptions toward the resolution of the debate over unmarried cohabitation is discussed.
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