Defusing Political Animosity with a Cooperative Online Quiz Game
Year: 2020
Type: preprint
Abstract: In this study, participants play a 1-player trivia game with the same overarching design as in previous studies. Participants are sorted into one of two conditions – an “Easy” trivia condition and a “Hard” trivia condition. In the Easy condition, participants answer very basic trivia questions that are designed such that all participants will know the answer prior to seeing their partner’s response (e.g. how many fingers does a typical human have on one hand?) In the Hard trivia condition, questions are designed to tap into liberals’ and conservatives’ distinctive cultural knowledge bases, generating opportunities for partisans to “rescue” their out-party partners. The goal of this analysis is to ask whether effects on out-party attitudes depend on actually being helped by an outgroup member’s knowledge.
Authors: Evan DeFilippis, Joshua D. Greene
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6906537495