Victor Ottati
Biographic Data
| ID | 75684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Ottati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Ottati |
| SIGNATURE | OTTATI V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1648-1772 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 298 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Rigidity-of-the-Right and Ideological Extremism in Belief Superiority: Evidence From National Surveys in Indonesia
Previous research in the United States has examined the Rigidity of the Right and Ideological Extremism hypotheses as they pertain to belief superiority. The former hypothesis predicts that conservatives possess higher levels of belief superiority than liberals, whereas the second hypothesis predicts that belief superiority is higher for ideologically extreme individuals than more moderate individuals. This study aims to examine these hypotheses …
A fair share: Effects of disparity, allocation strategy and system justification on perceptions of policy support in the education domain
Utilizing experimental methods across a pilot and two studies, we explore and contrast the relationship between system‐justifying attitudes and fairness perceptions of and support for redistributive policies based on theoretical accounts of distributive justice, highlighting three allocation strategies: equality, equity and need. We began our investigation with a test across multiple policy domains (e.g., health care, education, employment) to ex…
I feel your pain”: The effect of displaying empathy on political candidate evaluation
Two experiments demonstrate that highly empathetic messages conveyed by a political candidate produce more favorable attitudes and increase the likelihood individuals will vote for the political candidate. Study 1 revealed this Empathetic Communication Effect is stronger among female political candidates than male. Compared to male candidates, female candidates are evaluated more positively when they engage in empathetic language but are more har…
Experimental demonstrations of the earned dogmatism effect using a variety of optimal manipulations: Commentary and response to Calin-Jageman (2018)
The Paradoxical Religiosity Effect: Religion and Politics in Indonesia and the United States—Erratum
The Paradoxical Religiosity Effect: Religion and Politics in Indonesia and the United States
We argue that personal religiosity and political religiosity are distinct attributes of a political candidate. Personal religiosity reflects a candidate's level of personal religious commitment and political religiosity reflects the candidate's policy regarding separating versus blending religion and politics. The paradoxical religiosity hypothesis predicts that, within a democracy, personal religiosity will increase voters' endorsement of a cand…
When self-perceptions of expertise increase closed-minded cognition: The earned dogmatism effect
The arousal model of moral condemnation
A cross-cultural investigation of beliefs about justice in China, USA and South Africa
Physical Attractiveness and Candidate Evaluation: A Model of Correction
Voters typically evaluate an attractive candidate more favorably than an (otherwise equivalent) unattractive candidate. However, some voters “correct” for the biasing influence of physical appearance. This reduces, eliminates, or even reverses the physical attractiveness effect. Correction occurs when political experts evaluate a political candidate under nondistracting conditions. Under these “high cognitive capacity” conditions, voters primaril…
Effects of a group stereotype on memory for behaviors performed by a group member
Participants were provided with a group impression prior to receiving behavioral information pertaining to a group member. The group impression conveyed a below average level of intelligence or an above average level of intelligence. In addition, the distribution of intelligence scores within the group was unimodal in one condition and bimodal in another condition. The behavioral information pertaining to the individual group member was predomina…
From Whence Comes Mental Illness Stigma
Background: This paper seeks to answer two fundamental questions: What is the basis of the current form of mental illness stigma? and Why do western cultures stereotype people with mental illness as dangerous, incompetent and blameful, rather than something else? Material and discussion: We argue that a motivational model called system-justification offers several benefits for answering these questions. System-justification portrays stigma as a w…
The Social Psychology of Politics
Attitudes toward “Illegal” Immigration into the United States: California Proposition 187
In the mid-1990s, Proposition 187 in California, directed primarily toward Mexican immigrants, tended to deprive “illegal” immigrants of welfare benefits, education, and all but emergency medical care. It also attempted to facilitate their deportation. By describing Mr. Carlos Suarez as a presumed illegal immigrant from Mexico, Study 1 showed that prejudice against Mexicans and concern about threat to the U.S. economy served as unique predictors …
The effect of metaphor on processing style in a persuasion task: A motivational resonance model
Previous research on metaphor and persuasion has suggested that metaphorical language elicits an assimilation effect wherein positive metaphors elicit positive attitudes toward the communication topic and negative metaphors elicit negative evaluations. The authors of this article propose that metaphorical content can increase or decrease motivation to systematically scrutinize a persuasive communication depending on the extent to which it "resona…
When the survey question directs retrieval: Implications for assessing the cognitive and affective predictors of global evaluation
Research suggests that individuals do not respond to survey questions on the basis of a single, fixed set of psychological considerations. To the contrary, they respond on the basis of whatever material happens to come to mind at the moment of answering. Furthermore, the particular material that comes to mind often depends upon the nature of the question and the manner in which it is posed. This has important implications when attempting to asses…
Political Information Processing
Affect and Political Judgment
Determinants of In-Group and Out-Group Perceptions of Heterogeneity: An Investigation of Sino-American Stereotypes
Research indicates that increased familiarity with a social category leads to greater category differentiation. Consequently, in-groups are perceived as more heterogeneous than out-groups and intergroup contact enhances perceived out-group heterogeneity. In examining Sino-American stereotypes, this study considers two additional determinants of perceived heterogeneity. These are (a) perceptual responsiveness to the target group's objective level …
Bases of political judgments: The role of stereotypic and nonstereotypic information
The cognitive and affective components of political attitudes: Measuring the determinants of candidate evaluations
The Cognitive and Affective Bases of Political Tolerance Judgments
James H. Kuklinski, Department of Political Science and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois Ellen Riggle, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky Victor Ottati, Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook Norbert Schwarz, ZUMA, Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany Robert S. Wyer, Jr., Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
Determinants of political judgments: The joint influence of normative and heuristic rules of inference
Cognitive and affective bases of opinion survey responses
Two experiments investigated the determinants of agreement with propositions that advocated social privileges for either people in general or specific social groups. Liking for the group to which a group-specific proposition referred had a contrast effect on agreement with a related general proposition that was considered immediately after it, but had a positive influence on agreement with a general proposition that did not occur until several it…
Determinants of voters' beliefs about the candidates' stands on the issues: The role of evaluative bias heuristics and the candidates' expressed message
The Cognitive and Affective Bases of Political Tolerance Judgments
James H. Kuklinski, Department of Political Science and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois Ellen Riggle, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky Victor Ottati, Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook Norbert Schwarz, ZUMA, Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany Robert S. Wyer, Jr., Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
Bases of political judgments: The role of stereotypic and nonstereotypic information
Physical Attractiveness and Candidate Evaluation: A Model of Correction
Voters typically evaluate an attractive candidate more favorably than an (otherwise equivalent) unattractive candidate. However, some voters “correct” for the biasing influence of physical appearance. This reduces, eliminates, or even reverses the physical attractiveness effect. Correction occurs when political experts evaluate a political candidate under nondistracting conditions. Under these “high cognitive capacity” conditions, voters primaril…
The cognitive and affective components of political attitudes: Measuring the determinants of candidate evaluations
Determinants of political judgments: The joint influence of normative and heuristic rules of inference
Attitudes toward “Illegal” Immigration into the United States: California Proposition 187
In the mid-1990s, Proposition 187 in California, directed primarily toward Mexican immigrants, tended to deprive “illegal” immigrants of welfare benefits, education, and all but emergency medical care. It also attempted to facilitate their deportation. By describing Mr. Carlos Suarez as a presumed illegal immigrant from Mexico, Study 1 showed that prejudice against Mexicans and concern about threat to the U.S. economy served as unique predictors …
Determinants of In-Group and Out-Group Perceptions of Heterogeneity: An Investigation of Sino-American Stereotypes
Research indicates that increased familiarity with a social category leads to greater category differentiation. Consequently, in-groups are perceived as more heterogeneous than out-groups and intergroup contact enhances perceived out-group heterogeneity. In examining Sino-American stereotypes, this study considers two additional determinants of perceived heterogeneity. These are (a) perceptual responsiveness to the target group's objective level …
The effect of metaphor on processing style in a persuasion task: A motivational resonance model
Previous research on metaphor and persuasion has suggested that metaphorical language elicits an assimilation effect wherein positive metaphors elicit positive attitudes toward the communication topic and negative metaphors elicit negative evaluations. The authors of this article propose that metaphorical content can increase or decrease motivation to systematically scrutinize a persuasive communication depending on the extent to which it "resona…
When self-perceptions of expertise increase closed-minded cognition: The earned dogmatism effect
Role Perceptions of Hispanic Young Adults
Three studies explored the role perceptions of samples of Hispanic Navy recruits. Three different methods were used: (1) role differentials, in which a role, such as son-mother; and behaviors, such as "tells secrets to," were presented to subjects who estimated the frequency of the behavior on a ten-point scale ranging from never to always; (2) behavior differentials, in which stimuli, such as father, and behaviors that the subjects themselves en…
Determinants of voters' beliefs about the candidates' stands on the issues: The role of evaluative bias heuristics and the candidates' expressed message
Cognitive and affective bases of opinion survey responses
Two experiments investigated the determinants of agreement with propositions that advocated social privileges for either people in general or specific social groups. Liking for the group to which a group-specific proposition referred had a contrast effect on agreement with a related general proposition that was considered immediately after it, but had a positive influence on agreement with a general proposition that did not occur until several it…
The arousal model of moral condemnation
The Paradoxical Religiosity Effect: Religion and Politics in Indonesia and the United States
We argue that personal religiosity and political religiosity are distinct attributes of a political candidate. Personal religiosity reflects a candidate's level of personal religious commitment and political religiosity reflects the candidate's policy regarding separating versus blending religion and politics. The paradoxical religiosity hypothesis predicts that, within a democracy, personal religiosity will increase voters' endorsement of a cand…
A fair share: Effects of disparity, allocation strategy and system justification on perceptions of policy support in the education domain
Utilizing experimental methods across a pilot and two studies, we explore and contrast the relationship between system‐justifying attitudes and fairness perceptions of and support for redistributive policies based on theoretical accounts of distributive justice, highlighting three allocation strategies: equality, equity and need. We began our investigation with a test across multiple policy domains (e.g., health care, education, employment) to ex…
I feel your pain”: The effect of displaying empathy on political candidate evaluation
Two experiments demonstrate that highly empathetic messages conveyed by a political candidate produce more favorable attitudes and increase the likelihood individuals will vote for the political candidate. Study 1 revealed this Empathetic Communication Effect is stronger among female political candidates than male. Compared to male candidates, female candidates are evaluated more positively when they engage in empathetic language but are more har…
Experimental demonstrations of the earned dogmatism effect using a variety of optimal manipulations: Commentary and response to Calin-Jageman (2018)
A cross-cultural investigation of beliefs about justice in China, USA and South Africa
Role Perceptions of Hispanic Young Adults
Three studies explored the role perceptions of samples of Hispanic Navy recruits. Three different methods were used: (1) role differentials, in which a role, such as son-mother; and behaviors, such as "tells secrets to," were presented to subjects who estimated the frequency of the behavior on a ten-point scale ranging from never to always; (2) behavior differentials, in which stimuli, such as father, and behaviors that the subjects themselves en…
Determinants of voters' beliefs about the candidates' stands on the issues: The role of evaluative bias heuristics and the candidates' expressed message
Cognitive and affective bases of opinion survey responses
Two experiments investigated the determinants of agreement with propositions that advocated social privileges for either people in general or specific social groups. Liking for the group to which a group-specific proposition referred had a contrast effect on agreement with a related general proposition that was considered immediately after it, but had a positive influence on agreement with a general proposition that did not occur until several it…
Determinants of political judgments: The joint influence of normative and heuristic rules of inference
The Cognitive and Affective Bases of Political Tolerance Judgments
James H. Kuklinski, Department of Political Science and Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of Illinois Ellen Riggle, Department of Political Science, University of Kentucky Victor Ottati, Department of Political Science, State University of New York at Stony Brook Norbert Schwarz, ZUMA, Mannheim, Federal Republic of Germany Robert S. Wyer, Jr., Department of Psychology, University of Illinois
Bases of political judgments: The role of stereotypic and nonstereotypic information
The cognitive and affective components of political attitudes: Measuring the determinants of candidate evaluations
Political Information Processing
Affect and Political Judgment
Determinants of In-Group and Out-Group Perceptions of Heterogeneity: An Investigation of Sino-American Stereotypes
Research indicates that increased familiarity with a social category leads to greater category differentiation. Consequently, in-groups are perceived as more heterogeneous than out-groups and intergroup contact enhances perceived out-group heterogeneity. In examining Sino-American stereotypes, this study considers two additional determinants of perceived heterogeneity. These are (a) perceptual responsiveness to the target group's objective level …
When the survey question directs retrieval: Implications for assessing the cognitive and affective predictors of global evaluation
Research suggests that individuals do not respond to survey questions on the basis of a single, fixed set of psychological considerations. To the contrary, they respond on the basis of whatever material happens to come to mind at the moment of answering. Furthermore, the particular material that comes to mind often depends upon the nature of the question and the manner in which it is posed. This has important implications when attempting to asses…
The effect of metaphor on processing style in a persuasion task: A motivational resonance model
Previous research on metaphor and persuasion has suggested that metaphorical language elicits an assimilation effect wherein positive metaphors elicit positive attitudes toward the communication topic and negative metaphors elicit negative evaluations. The authors of this article propose that metaphorical content can increase or decrease motivation to systematically scrutinize a persuasive communication depending on the extent to which it "resona…
Attitudes toward “Illegal” Immigration into the United States: California Proposition 187
In the mid-1990s, Proposition 187 in California, directed primarily toward Mexican immigrants, tended to deprive “illegal” immigrants of welfare benefits, education, and all but emergency medical care. It also attempted to facilitate their deportation. By describing Mr. Carlos Suarez as a presumed illegal immigrant from Mexico, Study 1 showed that prejudice against Mexicans and concern about threat to the U.S. economy served as unique predictors …
The Social Psychology of Politics
From Whence Comes Mental Illness Stigma
Background: This paper seeks to answer two fundamental questions: What is the basis of the current form of mental illness stigma? and Why do western cultures stereotype people with mental illness as dangerous, incompetent and blameful, rather than something else? Material and discussion: We argue that a motivational model called system-justification offers several benefits for answering these questions. System-justification portrays stigma as a w…
Effects of a group stereotype on memory for behaviors performed by a group member
Participants were provided with a group impression prior to receiving behavioral information pertaining to a group member. The group impression conveyed a below average level of intelligence or an above average level of intelligence. In addition, the distribution of intelligence scores within the group was unimodal in one condition and bimodal in another condition. The behavioral information pertaining to the individual group member was predomina…
A cross-cultural investigation of beliefs about justice in China, USA and South Africa
Physical Attractiveness and Candidate Evaluation: A Model of Correction
Voters typically evaluate an attractive candidate more favorably than an (otherwise equivalent) unattractive candidate. However, some voters “correct” for the biasing influence of physical appearance. This reduces, eliminates, or even reverses the physical attractiveness effect. Correction occurs when political experts evaluate a political candidate under nondistracting conditions. Under these “high cognitive capacity” conditions, voters primaril…
The arousal model of moral condemnation
When self-perceptions of expertise increase closed-minded cognition: The earned dogmatism effect
The Paradoxical Religiosity Effect: Religion and Politics in Indonesia and the United States—Erratum
The Paradoxical Religiosity Effect: Religion and Politics in Indonesia and the United States
We argue that personal religiosity and political religiosity are distinct attributes of a political candidate. Personal religiosity reflects a candidate's level of personal religious commitment and political religiosity reflects the candidate's policy regarding separating versus blending religion and politics. The paradoxical religiosity hypothesis predicts that, within a democracy, personal religiosity will increase voters' endorsement of a cand…
Experimental demonstrations of the earned dogmatism effect using a variety of optimal manipulations: Commentary and response to Calin-Jageman (2018)
I feel your pain”: The effect of displaying empathy on political candidate evaluation
Two experiments demonstrate that highly empathetic messages conveyed by a political candidate produce more favorable attitudes and increase the likelihood individuals will vote for the political candidate. Study 1 revealed this Empathetic Communication Effect is stronger among female political candidates than male. Compared to male candidates, female candidates are evaluated more positively when they engage in empathetic language but are more har…
A fair share: Effects of disparity, allocation strategy and system justification on perceptions of policy support in the education domain
Utilizing experimental methods across a pilot and two studies, we explore and contrast the relationship between system‐justifying attitudes and fairness perceptions of and support for redistributive policies based on theoretical accounts of distributive justice, highlighting three allocation strategies: equality, equity and need. We began our investigation with a test across multiple policy domains (e.g., health care, education, employment) to ex…
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