To more fully understand the belief gap hypothesis, this study examines the effect of political identity, education, and partisan media consumption on the formation of attitudes and false beliefs. Using a two-wave, nationally representative online survey of the U.S., we assess people’s attitudes and beliefs toward climate change, on the one hand, and Syrian refugees, on the other. Building on previous studies, we demonstrate that the effect of one’s political identity on attitudes and false beliefs is contingent upon education, which appears to widen the belief gap in consort with political identity.

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注意间隔！政治认同和态度在信仰差距出现中的作用

为了更全面地理解信仰差距假说，本研究考察了政治身份、教育和党派媒体消费对态度和错误信仰形成的影响。我们使用对美国进行的具有全国代表性的两波在线调查，一方面评估人们对气候变化的态度和信念，另一方面评估叙利亚难民。在之前的研究的基础上，我们证明了一个人的政治身份对态度和错误信念的影响取决于教育，这似乎扩大了与政治身份相一致的信念差距。