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2017

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Benny ChuPsychologyUndergraduate Student,Tsolak KirakosyanPsychologyGraduate Student,Isaac HuicocheaPsychologyUndergraduate Student,Alexandra CruzPsychologyUndergraduate Student,Bryan SherburnePsychologyUndergraduate Student,Amber GaffneyPsychologyFaculty

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This study highlights the interaction between uncertainty and rhetoric on the support for policies such as abortion. Clinton’s affirming rhetoric created higher support for abortion because highly uncertain individuals define the self by expressing polarized group-based attitudes (Gaffney et al., 2014). Political leaders may be able to gain support for causes that are salient to their party identity by utilizing affirming rhetoric rather than negating rhetoric.

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