scholarly journals Social‐psychological context moderates incentives to co‐produce: Evidence from a large‐scale survey experiment on park upkeep in an urban setting

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Letki ◽  
Trui Steen
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Large Scale Survey

scholarly journals Correcting Citizens’ Misperceptions about non-Western Immigrants: Corrective Information, Interpretations, and Policy Opinions

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederik Juhl Jørgensen ◽  
Mathias Osmundsen
Keyword(s):  
Immigration Policy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Correct Information ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Information Change ◽  
Corrective Information

Abstract Can corrective information change citizens’ misperceptions about immigrants and subsequently lead to favorable immigration opinions? While prior studies from the USA document how corrections about the size of minority populations fail to change citizens’ immigration-related opinions, they do not examine how other facts that speak to immigrants’ cultural or economic dependency rates can influence immigration policy opinions. To extend earlier work, we conducted a large-scale survey experiment fielded to a nationally representative sample of Danes. We randomly expose participants to information about non-Western immigrants’ (1) welfare dependency rate, (2) crime rate, and (3) proportion of the total population. We find that participants update their factual beliefs in light of correct information, but reinterpret the information in a highly selective fashion, ultimately failing to change their policy preferences.

scholarly journals How Simple Messages Affect Voters' Knowledge and Their Perceptions of Politicians - Evidence From a Large-Scale Survey Experiment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Bischof ◽  
Roman Senninger
Keyword(s):  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The People ◽  
Simple Language ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
New Generation

Public discourse is increasingly concerned with the way that politicians communicate. This is fuelled by a new generation of politicians, such as Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, and representatives of populist parties, who evidently communicate less sophisticated than mainstream politicians. However, the question of whether and how linguistic styles affect citizens is largely unexplored. We argue that both citizens and politicians might benefit from simple political communication. First, mechanically, citizens should have a better chance to understand political positions if political discourse is less sophisticated. Second, linguistic simplicity can function as a heuristic for citizens by signaling that politicians are among the "people" instead of being part of the "elites". We test our arguments using a pre-registered three-wave vignette survey experiment in Germany (N = 5,800). Our findings show that simple messages (as compared to sophisticated messages) indeed increase citizens' comprehension of political positions. Moreover, we find that citizens use language sophistication as a heuristic to fill informational gaps about politicians. Politicians who communicate less sophisticated are perceived to have rather modest socioeconomic backgrounds. As a result, the use of simple language can benefit politicians' claims to belong to the people instead of the elite. Our findings add important new insights to our understanding of the effects of political communication in contemporary democracies.

scholarly journals Backlash to policy decisions: how citizens react to immigrants' rights to demonstrate

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
Richard Traunmüller ◽  
Marc Helbling
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Specific Aspect ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Policy Decisions ◽  
Political Sources ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Political Right

Abstract Focusing on one specific aspect of immigrant political integration—how authorities deal with their political right to demonstrate—we show in a large-scale survey experiment that liberal policy decisions permitting demonstrations lead to a polarization in attitudes: citizens who agree with a permission become more sympathetic, while those in favor of banning become more critical of immigrants. This notion of opinion backlash to policy decisions adds a new perspective to the literature on immigration attitudes which has either assumed a congruence between public opinion and policy or ignored political sources of anti-immigrant sentiment altogether. By exploring the unintended consequences of policy decisions, we provide an alternative view and demonstrate the inherent dilemma of balancing citizen opinion and minority rights.

Volunteer Science

2016 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 376-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Radford ◽  
Andy Pilny ◽  
Ashley Reichelmann ◽  
Brian Keegan ◽  
Brooke Foucault Welles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Timely Manner ◽  
Online Laboratory ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
Online Methods ◽  
Psychological Experiments

Experimental research in traditional laboratories comes at a significant logistic and financial cost while drawing data from demographically narrow populations. The growth of online methods of research has resulted in effective means for social psychologists to collect large-scale survey-based data in a cost-effective and timely manner. However, the same advancement has not occurred for social psychologists who rely on experimentation as their primary method of data collection. The aim of this article is to provide an overview of one online laboratory for conducting experiments, Volunteer Science, and report the results of six studies that test canonical behaviors commonly captured in social psychological experiments. Our results show that the online laboratory is capable of performing a variety of studies with large numbers of diverse volunteers. We advocate for the use of the online laboratory as a valid and cost-effective way to perform social psychological experiments with large numbers of diverse subjects.

scholarly journals The social psychological processes of ‘procedural justice’: Concepts, critiques and opportunities

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 421-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Radburn ◽  
Clifford Stott
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Procedural Justice ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Social World ◽  
Police Legitimacy ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Large Scale Survey

Contemporary research on policing and procedural justice theory (PJT) emphasizes large-scale survey data to link a series of interlocking concepts, namely perceptions of procedural fairness, police legitimacy and normative compliance. In this article we contend that as such, contemporary research is in danger of conveying a misreading of PJT by portraying a reified social world divorced from the social psychological dynamics of encounters between the police and policed. In this article we set out a rationale for addressing this potential misreading and explore how and why PJT researchers would benefit both theoretically and methodologically through drawing upon advances in theoretical accounts of social identity, developed most notably in attempts to understand crowd action. Specifically, we advance an articulation of a ‘process-based’ model of PJT’s underlying social and subjective dynamics and stress the value of ethnographic approaches for studying police–‘citizen’ encounters.

scholarly journals Forewarned is Forearmed? A Survey-Experiment concerning the Impact of Pre-Notification Letters on Response in a Postal Survey

2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 86-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bram Spruyt ◽  
Filip Van Droogenbroeck
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Overall Response Rate ◽  
Response Rate ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Postal Survey ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Overall Response ◽  
Large Scale Survey ◽  
The Impact

The use of pre-notification letters is thought to increase the response rate of postal surveys. The empirical evidence for that claim, however, is not conclusive. In this research note we assessed the impact of pre-notification by means of data from a large-scale survey-experiment conducted in Flanders (N: 4000). Three outcomes were studied: overall response rate, timing of the response and quality of the response. No significant positive impact was found on the overall response rate and quality of response. However evidence indicated that respondents who received a pre-notification letter were more inclined to respond earlier.

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