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People seek out and interpret political information in self-serving ways. In four experiments, we show that people are similarly self-serving in the political information they share with others. Participants learned about positive and negative effects of increasing the minimum wage (in Studies 1-3) or of banning assault weapons (Study 4). They then...
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... the multi-level linear model depicted in Table 4, we estimated the simple effects of the ideology-consistent indicator when participants agreed vs. disagreed with their discussants, when participants were conservative vs. liberal, and when participants had read about gun bans vs. the minimum wage. See Table 5. A significant simple effect implies significant evidence of selective communication. ...Context 2
... revised model showed the same ideological asymmetry as that depicted in Table 4. The coefficients from the original model and the estimated marginal effects of the "Ideology-Consistent" indicator were identical in direction and significance to those depicted in Table 5. Adding these 9 covariates and their associated interactions had no effect on our results. ...Context 3
... do not represent the average effect of each predictor. They represent the effect of that predictor when all others are set equal to 0. Table 5 depicts more easily interpretable effects derived from this model. ( †p < 0.10. ...Context 4
... Figure A4 for illustration. Table 5 of the main manuscript: ideology and indicators for ideological consistency and agreement were replaced with policy attitudes and indicators for attitude consistency and agreement. Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals around predicted values. ...Similar publications
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