Does the Gender of Offspring Affect Parental Political Orientation?

Lee, Byungkyu; Conley, Dalton

doi:10.1093/sf/sov098

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“…Prior studies examining the relationship between becoming a first-time parent and sociopolitical ideology have yielded inconsistent results [42]. Despite this, our findings suggest that shifts in social, political, and intergroup perceptions towards vigilance and maintenance of security may occur even in response to minimal exposure to others' infants.…”

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Brief Exposure to Infants Activates Social and Intergroup Vigilance

Cheon

Esposito

2020

Behavioral Sciences

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Among humans, simply looking at infants can activate affiliative and nurturant behaviors. However, it remains unknown whether mere exposure to infants also activates other aspects of the caregiving motivational system, such as generalized defensiveness in the absence of immediate threats. Here, we demonstrate that simply viewing faces of infants (especially from the ingroup) may heighten vigilance against social threats and support for institutions that purportedly maintain security. Across two studies, participants viewed and rated one among several image types (between-subjects design): Infants, adult males, adult females, and puppies in Study 1, and infants of varying racial/ethnic groups (including one’s ingroup) and puppies in Study 2. Following exposure to one of these image types, participants completed measures of intergroup bias from a range of outgroups that differed in perceived threat, belief in a dangerous world, right-wing authoritarianism and social-political conservatism (relative to liberalism). In Study 1 (United States), stronger affiliative reactions to images of infants (but not adults or puppies) predicted stronger perceptions of a dangerous world, endorsement of right-wing authoritarianism, and support for social-political conservatism (relative to liberalism). Study 2 (Italy) revealed that exposure to images of ingroup infants (compared to outgroup infants) increased intergroup bias against outgroups that are characterized as threatening (immigrants and Arabs) and increased conservatism. These findings suggest a predisposed preparedness for social vigilance in the mere suggested presence of infants (e.g., viewing images) even in the absence of salient external threats.

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Section: General Discussion and Conclusioncontrasting

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Brief Exposure to Infants Activates Social and Intergroup Vigilance

Cheon

Esposito

2020

Behavioral Sciences

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“…Prior studies examining the relationship between becoming a first-time parent and sociopolitical ideology have yielded inconsistent results [41]. Despite this, our findings suggest that shifts in social, political, and intergroup perceptions towards vigilance and maintenance of security may occur even in response to minimal exposure to others' infants.…”

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confidence: 75%

Brief Exposure to Infants Activates Social and Intergroup Vigilance

Cheon¹,

Esposito²

2020

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Among humans, simply looking at infants can activate affiliative and nurturant behaviors. Yet it remains unknown whether mere exposure to infants also activates generalized defensiveness in the absence of immediate threats. Here, we demonstrate that simply viewing faces of infants (especially from the ingroup) may heighten vigilance against social threats and support for institutions that purportedly maintain security. In Study 1 (United States), stronger affiliative reactions to images of infants (but not adults or puppies) predicted stronger perceptions of a dangerous world, endorsement of right-wing authoritarianism, and support for social-political conservatism (relative to liberalism). Study 2 (Italy) revealed that exposure to images of ingroup infants (compared to outgroup infants) increased intergroup bias against outgroups characterized as threatening (immigrants and Arabs) and increased conservatism. These findings suggest a predisposed preparedness for social vigilance in the mere presence of infants, even in the absence of salient external threats.

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“…Past research suggests that having a son versus daughter makes people have more conservative political orientations (Warner 1991;Washington 2008;Oswald and Powdthavee 2010), but also see Lee and Conley (2016). Although a general increase in conservatism because of having a son is consistent with the signaling idea presented above, hypothesis 3 is more specific.…”

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Revisiting Broken Windows: The Role of Neighborhood and Individual Characteristics in Reaction to Disorder Cues

Völker¹

2017

SocScience

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Using Turkey's 2013 Demographic and Health Survey, I find that among married women, having a single child as opposed to no children is associated with an approximately five-percentagepoint increase in the likelihood of religious veiling. Furthermore, the likelihood of religious veiling increases as the number of a woman's children increases. Robustness checks show that these associations are rather stable across the Muslim world. In addition, I use the sex of a woman's first child as a natural experiment and find that in Turkey, having a son versus a daughter increases the likelihood of religious veiling by 2.2 percentage points. In contrast, having a child and the sex of the first child have no significant effects on unobservable religious behaviors, traditional values, and gender norms. These results are consistent with the hypothesis derived from signaling theory that women use veiling strategically to foster family reputation.

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Does the Gender of Offspring Affect Parental Political Orientation?

Cited by 25 publications

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Brief Exposure to Infants Activates Social and Intergroup Vigilance

Brief Exposure to Infants Activates Social and Intergroup Vigilance

Brief Exposure to Infants Activates Social and Intergroup Vigilance

Revisiting Broken Windows: The Role of Neighborhood and Individual Characteristics in Reaction to Disorder Cues

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