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cord-033687-djkljey2	Druckman, James N.	How Affective Polarization Shapes Americans’ Political Beliefs: A Study of Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic	2020-08-24		.txt	text/plain	4561	253	46	Partisans who harbor high levels of animus towards the other party do not differentiate the "United States'" response to COVID-19 from that of the Trump administration. Because the virus and resulting pandemic was completely novel when it emerged in early 2020, partisans did not have prior beliefs about it and their pre-COVID levels of affective polarization cannot be affected by how elites acted during the crisis. First, in line with Hypothesis 1, we would observe that participants from different political parties offer differential evaluations of the targets (e.g., Republicans being more favorable about Trump than the United States). Republicans with low levels of affective polarization report higher evaluations of the American response in the Trump condition than in the United States condition such that we can reject the null hypothesis of no difference (1.94 versus 1.31, difference of −0.626, p < 0.01). How Affective Polarization Shapes Americans' Political Beliefs: A Study of Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic	./cache/cord-033687-djkljey2.txt	./txt/cord-033687-djkljey2.txt