Past research indicates that in political debates the same arguments are judged very differently depending on the perceiver's own position on the issue, because positions on controversial issues are often tied to collective identities. In this series of studies we tested the assumption that equality-based respect from an opposing opinion-based group can reduce such biases. Results confirmed that identification as an opponent or proponent of a contested issue was negatively related to evaluations of outgroup arguments (Study 1) and that this negative link was no longer significant when intergroup respect was experimentally induced (Study 2). Results support the notion that disagreements over political issues are intergroup conflicts, in which different socio-political groups struggle for recognition, and that approaches that protect collective identities and improve intergroup relations should be employed to de-escalate them.
etse16re12_readme.txt: Beschreibung der Datei; etse16re12_fd1.txt: Forschungsdatensatz des Pretests; etse16re12_fd2.txt: Forschungsdatensatz ür Studie 1; etse16re12_fd3.txt: Forschungsdatensatz für Studie 2 ; etse16re12_kb1.txt: Codebuch der Forschungsdatensatz etse16re12_fd1.txt, Pretest; etse16re12_kb2.txt: Codebuch der Forschungsdatensatz etse16re12_fd2.txt, Studie 1; etse16re12_kb3.txt: Codebuch der Forschungsdatensatz etse16re12_fd3.txt, Studie 3; etse16re12_sy1.txt: Syntaxdatei mit Scoring-Berechnungen für Studie 1; etse16re12_sy2.txt: Syntaxdatei mit Scoring-Berechnungen für Studie 2
etse16re12_readme.txt: description of the files; etse16re12_fd1.txt: Research data file of pretest; etse16re12_fd2.txt: Research data file for study 1; etse16re12_fd3.txt: Research data file for study 2 ; etse16re12_kb1.txt: Codebook of research data file etse16re12_fd1.txt, pretest; etse16re12_kb2.txt: Codebook of research data file etse16re12_fd2.txt, study 1; etse16re12_kb3.txt: Codebook of research data file etse16re12_fd3.txt, study 3; etse16re12_sy1.txt: Syntax file with scoring calculations for study 1; etse16re12_sy2.txt: Syntax file with scoring calculations for study 2
