After more than 40 hours of interviews with 10-year-olds in multiple states, children who supported former President Trump were more willing to visit the homes of families with opposing views than their Democratic-leaning counterparts. I concluded that there is.
“Researchers find in new study that children who support the Democratic Party increase polarization.” CNN reported Thursday. This suggests that Democratic-leaning children are more likely to discriminate against Trump supporters, while children in red states are more likely to repeat “misinformation.”
The findings were compiled from more than 40 hours of interviews with 80 elementary school students in Arizona, New Jersey, and Texas on behalf of CNN's “Anderson Cooper 360.” The interviews, with the approval of parents or guardians, took place both in the spring, before President Biden abandoned the nomination, and in the fall, long after Vice President Kamala Harris took over the baton.
During both seasons, Arizona State University associate professor, child development specialist, and media psychologist Ashley Landrum spoke with children and noticed some key differences between respondents.
Children were shown images of homes with signs for Democratic and Republican candidates and asked whether they would visit the homes of children whose families did not support a candidate.
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“Democratic-leaning children are more likely to express negative emotions (nervous/worried or angry/frustrated) about Donald Trump than Republican-leaning children are more likely to express about Kamala Harris. were approximately 9 times (or 800% higher),” the study said. He explained.
CNN host Anderson Cooper said on his show that the “biggest finding overall'' was that “the children in the study were polarized, and the children in what researchers called blue states “Children in red states had more extreme reactions than children in red states.”
“Donald Trump has done bad things, he's like Hitler,” said the Democratic-leaning boy.
When asked what the first word that comes to mind about the candidates they oppose, one child said “liar” when referring to Harris, while another said “pure evil” when referring to Trump.
Landrum also showed the children images of two houses, one with Republican ticket signs and one with Democratic ticket signs, and said he and his family were playing with friends at one family's home. But I asked if it was okay. Support your opponent.
“Landrum points out that most children were willing to visit homes affiliated with one political party or the other, but a higher percentage of Democratic-leaning children (a third of 1) were reluctant to visit the homes of children whose families supported Trump,'' CNN reported. “Few Trump-leaning kids said they didn't want to visit Democratic homes.”
CNN's “Anderson Cooper 360” commissioned a study that interviewed 80 elementary school students in Arizona, New Jersey, and Texas.
In May, a child from a pro-Biden family suggested there would be an altercation if they all visited the home of a pro-Trump family, saying, “Maybe it would be like a food fight or something.” he said.
When one African-American child asked if it was okay to go to the home of a child whose family supported Trump, she said, “No, the family doesn't because they know he doesn't like black people.” I wouldn't be happy to meet you.” myself. “
Another said their family wouldn't let them go to the home of a Trump supporter, saying, “No, that's not true. Because my mom and dad don't like Donald Trump at all. My body. Not even a little bit.”
On the other hand, when another male student was asked, “Is it okay for Harris to go to the house of someone he likes?'' he answered, “I think it's okay, it's just a matter of personality.''
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Another question asked whether children living in a Trump supporter's home and a Harris supporter's home could be friends.
One girl suggested that people can be friends despite their differences: “I like Taylor Swift and they like Olivia Rodrigo, but we're still friends.”
Another boy said, “It doesn't matter if we have different skin colors or different people. We can still be friends.”
Landrum offered a theory as to why the reactions of Democratic-leaning children are so much more polarized than those of Republican children.
“So Donald Trump is a very polarizing figure, and parents are responding to Donald Trump being a very different kind of political figure than what we've seen before. In particular, it's very likely that children are reacting,” she said on CNN. “So do kids in red states have the same strong attitudes? Well, that's not the case when we're talking about Kamala Harris. That's partly because they think about her. Maybe it's because I don't know much about it.”
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