Megastudy Testing 25 Treatments to Reduce Antidemocratic Attitudes and Partisan Animosity
Science, 2024
Authors: Jan G. Voelkel, Michael N. Stagnaro, James Y. Chu, Sophia L. Pink, Joseph S. Mernyk, Chrystal Redekopp, Isaias Ghezae, Matthew Cashman, Dhaval Adjodah, Levi G. Allen, L. Victor Allis, Gina Baleria, Nathan Ballantyne, Jay J. Van Bavel, Hayley Blunden, Alia Braley, Christopher J. Bryan, Jared B. Celniker, Mina Cikara, Margarett V. Clapper, Katherine Clayton, Hanne Collins, Evan DeFilippis, Macrina Dieffenbach, Kimberly C. Doell, Charles Dorison, Mylien Duong, Peter Felsman, Maya Fiorella, David Francis, Michael Franz, Roman A. Gallardo, Sara Gifford, Daniela Goya-Tocchetto, Kurt Gray, Joe Green, Joshua Greene, Mertcan Güngör, Matthew Hall, Cameron A. Hecht, Ali Javeed, John T. Jost, Aaron C. Kay, Nick R. Kay, Brandyn Keating, John Michael Kelly, James R. G. Kirk, Malka Kopell, Nour Kteily, Emily Kubin, Jeffrey Lees, Gabriel Lenz, Matthew Levendusky, Rebecca Littman, Kara Luo, Aaron Lyles, Ben Lyons, Wayde Marsh, James Martherus, Lauren Alpert Maurer, Caroline Mehl, Julia Minson, Molly Moore, Samantha L. Moore-Berg, Michael H. Pasek, Alex Pentland, Curtis Puryear, Hossein Rahnama, Steve Rathje, Jay Rosato, Maytal Saar-Tsechansky, Luiza Almeida Santos, Colleen M. Seifert, Azim Shariff, Otto Simonsson, Shiri Spitz Siddiqi, Daniel F. Stone, Palma Strand, Michael Tomz, David S. Yeager, Erez Yoeli, Jamil Zaki, James N. Druckman, David G. Rand, and Robb Willer.
Abstract: Scholars, practitioners, and politicians have raised concerns about deepening partisan divisions and the health of American democracy. However, it remains unclear what strategies are most efficacious in reducing antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity in the American mass public. We tested the effects of 25 crowdsourced treatments on antidemocratic attitudes and partisan animosity. Moreover, we examine whether the same treatments were similarly impactful across different outcomes, or whether different treatments are needed to meaningfully reduce different outcomes.
Read the full article in Science, Volume 386, No. 6719.