Is Political Extremism Supported by an Illusion of Understanding?
Sloman & Vives (2022) · Cognition, 225
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What it corrects
One of the authors of the 2013 paper tested the idea again. The idea was that asking people to explain how a policy works makes their political views less extreme. We show this paper next to the 2013 paper, and we do not use it to replace the 2013 paper.
What the study found
Explaining still made people feel they understood less, as first reported. But it only softened positions on issues about what would happen, not on issues people held as a matter of right and wrong.
What the study cannot prove
This study re-examines an earlier result. It is not a new experiment, and it narrows the earlier result without replacing it.
Where we use it
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