TY - JOUR TI - University students' perceptions of the classroom political climate DO - https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-4v05-ht26 PY - 2019 AB - University students across two samples (ntotal=937) perceived conservatives to be the disproportionate recipients of hostility from university faculty. In an assessment of student experiences in the classroom related to their political beliefs, conservative students reported experiencing greater levels of hostility than their liberal and moderate peers, and participants perceived instructors to exhibit more hostility toward conservative students than liberal students. Additionally, conservative students reported greater anticipated stigma than their liberal and moderate peers (context: if instructors knew their political beliefs), lower levels of belonging in the classroom, and in Study 2 the strength of their political identity moderated reported experiences of hostility, anticipated stigma, and belonging. Implications related to viewpoint diversity, pipeline issues for conservatives in academia, and the chilling effect this may have in classrooms and on university campuses are discussed. KW - Psychology KW - College students -- Political and social views KW - Conservatism LA - eng ER -