Rongbo Jin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4393909 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rongbo Jin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rongbo |
| FAMILY NAME | Jin |
| SIGNATURE | JIN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0779-3923 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Do Americans Explain Their Party Identification and Out-Partisan Animosity?
Political scientists often claim that partisanship is explained by nonpolicy factors such as early childhood experiences, parental influence, and group membership. In this paper, we use open-ended survey questions to elicit partisan Americans’ own explanations for their affiliations as well as their attitudes toward the opposite party. Policy, values, and ideology are the most common reasons Americans say they identify as a Democrat or Republican…
Inhabiting Different Worlds
How does partisanship shape the ways Americans interpret major political events? We examine public evaluations of the Black Lives Matter protests and the January 6th insurrection using an original nationally representative YouGov survey alongside cross-sectional and panel data from the 2016–2024 American National Election Studies. We find that responses to both events are strongly structured by partisanship, but that this influence extends beyond…
Political Awareness and Sorting
Sorting – the phenomenon that individuals who share an ideological identity and/or social identities increasingly select into the same party – drives affective polarization between Democrats and Republicans in the US. However, how sorting has changed over time and who is more likely to sort along partisan lines is less understood. We argue that choosing the “correct” partisan group to align with one’s social identities requires political awarenes…
Does American identity still bind us together? A replication of Levendusky’s experiment (2018)
Complexities of the Status‐Legitimacy Hypothesis
Introduction The status‐legitimacy hypothesis (SLH) posits that low‐status individuals are more motivated to justify oppressive social systems than high‐status beneficiaries. However, recent research suggests this phenomenon is inconsistent, indicating critical moderators are overlooked. We revisit the SLH examining authoritarianism's moderating role. Methods Using two large representative datasets—the General Social Survey (1972‐2018) and Americ…
How Cross-Cutting Ties Reduce Affective Polarization
The Policy Blame Game
Democratic accountability relies on voters to punish their representatives for policies they dislike. Yet, a separation-of-powers system can make it hard to know who is to blame, and partisan biases further distort voters’ evaluations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, precautionary policies were put into place sometimes by governors, sometimes by mayors, and sometimes by no one at all, allowing us to identify when voters hold out-party versus in-par…
Racial and ethnic variation in the negativity bias–ideology connection
This is a registered report for a study of racial and ethnic variation in the relationship between negativity bias and political attitudes. Pioneering work on the psychological and biological roots of political orientation has suggested that political conservatism is driven in large part by enhanced negativity bias. This work has been criticized on several theoretical fronts, and recent replication attempts have failed. To dig deeper into the con…
The Policy Blame Game
Democratic accountability relies on voters to punish their representatives for policies they dislike. Yet, a separation-of-powers system can make it hard to know who is to blame, and partisan biases further distort voters’ evaluations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, precautionary policies were put into place sometimes by governors, sometimes by mayors, and sometimes by no one at all, allowing us to identify when voters hold out-party versus in-par…
How Cross-Cutting Ties Reduce Affective Polarization
Racial and ethnic variation in the negativity bias–ideology connection
This is a registered report for a study of racial and ethnic variation in the relationship between negativity bias and political attitudes. Pioneering work on the psychological and biological roots of political orientation has suggested that political conservatism is driven in large part by enhanced negativity bias. This work has been criticized on several theoretical fronts, and recent replication attempts have failed. To dig deeper into the con…
Racial and ethnic variation in the negativity bias–ideology connection
This is a registered report for a study of racial and ethnic variation in the relationship between negativity bias and political attitudes. Pioneering work on the psychological and biological roots of political orientation has suggested that political conservatism is driven in large part by enhanced negativity bias. This work has been criticized on several theoretical fronts, and recent replication attempts have failed. To dig deeper into the con…
The Policy Blame Game
Democratic accountability relies on voters to punish their representatives for policies they dislike. Yet, a separation-of-powers system can make it hard to know who is to blame, and partisan biases further distort voters’ evaluations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, precautionary policies were put into place sometimes by governors, sometimes by mayors, and sometimes by no one at all, allowing us to identify when voters hold out-party versus in-par…
Does American identity still bind us together? A replication of Levendusky’s experiment (2018)
Complexities of the Status‐Legitimacy Hypothesis
Introduction The status‐legitimacy hypothesis (SLH) posits that low‐status individuals are more motivated to justify oppressive social systems than high‐status beneficiaries. However, recent research suggests this phenomenon is inconsistent, indicating critical moderators are overlooked. We revisit the SLH examining authoritarianism's moderating role. Methods Using two large representative datasets—the General Social Survey (1972‐2018) and Americ…
How Cross-Cutting Ties Reduce Affective Polarization
How Do Americans Explain Their Party Identification and Out-Partisan Animosity?
Political scientists often claim that partisanship is explained by nonpolicy factors such as early childhood experiences, parental influence, and group membership. In this paper, we use open-ended survey questions to elicit partisan Americans’ own explanations for their affiliations as well as their attitudes toward the opposite party. Policy, values, and ideology are the most common reasons Americans say they identify as a Democrat or Republican…
Inhabiting Different Worlds
How does partisanship shape the ways Americans interpret major political events? We examine public evaluations of the Black Lives Matter protests and the January 6th insurrection using an original nationally representative YouGov survey alongside cross-sectional and panel data from the 2016–2024 American National Election Studies. We find that responses to both events are strongly structured by partisanship, but that this influence extends beyond…
Political Awareness and Sorting
Sorting – the phenomenon that individuals who share an ideological identity and/or social identities increasingly select into the same party – drives affective polarization between Democrats and Republicans in the US. However, how sorting has changed over time and who is more likely to sort along partisan lines is less understood. We argue that choosing the “correct” partisan group to align with one’s social identities requires political awarenes…
Electoral Systems and Political Participation (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Political science (4 works) · Social and Intergroup Psychology (4 works) · Ideology (3 works) · Polarization (electrochemistry (3 works) · Populism, Right-Wing Movements (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)