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Field
Experimental Design (Public)
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Before
Recruitment and eligibility:
Our experiment will be conducted on Prolific. We will recruit U.S. citizens who live in the US. We plan to recruit a balanced sample of participants who identify with the Democratic party and the Republican party. The experiment will be coded using Qualtrics.
Procedures:
1. Prior elicitation: Participants report beliefs about Democrats' and Republicans' intelligence (or trustworthiness)
2. Intervention: Treatment groups receive correct information about Democrats' and Republicans' intelligence (or trustworthiness)
3. Posterior elicitation: we elicit participants' beliefs again to examine how much they update to our information
4. Measure affective polarization
5. Investigate downstream consequences of affective polarization: We elicit participants' willingness to accept (WTA) to chat with co- vs counter-partisans on different topics.
6. Chat realization: Based on the BDM results, participants have chats with their assigned partner on an assigned topic.
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After
Recruitment and eligibility:
Our experiment will be conducted on Prolific. We will recruit U.S. citizens who live in the US. We plan to recruit a balanced sample of participants who identify with the Democratic party and the Republican party. The experiment will be coded using Qualtrics.
Procedures:
1. Tasks: Participants complete the cognitive task or the trust game, depending on which condition they are assigned to, to be familiar with the tasks.
2. Prior elicitation: Participants report beliefs about Democrats' and Republicans' intelligence (or trustworthiness)
3. Intervention: Treatment groups receive correct information about Democrats' and Republicans' intelligence (or trustworthiness)
4. Posterior elicitation: we elicit participants' beliefs again to examine how much they update to our information
5. Measure affective polarization
6. Investigate downstream consequences of affective polarization: We elicit participants' willingness to accept (WTA) to chat with co- vs counter-partisans on different topics.
6. Chat realization: Based on the BDM results, participants have chats with their assigned partner on an assigned topic.
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