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The attitudinal space framework: Embracing the multidimensionality of attitudinal diversity

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Attitude polarization describes an increasing attitude difference between groups and is increasingly recognized as a multidimensional phenomenon. However, a unified framework to study polarization across multiple dimensions is lacking. We introduce the attitudinal space framework (ASF) to fully quantify attitudinal diversity. We highlight two key measures—attitudinal extremization and attitu- dinal dispersion—to quantify across- and within-group attitudinal patterns. First, we show that affective polarization in the US electorate is weaker than previously thought based on mean differences alone: in both Democrat and Republican par- tisans, attitudinal dispersion increased between 1988 and 2008. Second, we examined attitudes toward wolves in Germany. Despite attitude differences be- tween regions with and without wolves, we did not find differences in attitudinal extremization or dispersion, suggesting only weak attitude polarization. These results illustrate how the ASF is applicable to a wide range of social systems and offers an important avenue to understanding societal transformations.
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Ugo Arbieu, Jörg Albrecht, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Lisa Lehnen, Matthias Schleuning, et al.. The attitudinal space framework: Embracing the multidimensionality of attitudinal diversity. iScience, 2023, 26 (8), pp.107340. ⟨10.1016/j.isci.2023.107340⟩. ⟨hal-04501979⟩
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