Forum
What is DR@W Forum?
DR@W Forum is an interdisciplinary discussion series which focuses on theoretical and empirical research about decision making.
The usual structure of the forum is a 30 - 45 minute introduction of the topic/working paper, with ample additional time for discussion.
The audience prefers discussing work-in-progress topics as opposed to finished papers. We meet on Thursdays between 2:30 and 3:45pm during term time. Contact John Taylor (John.Taylor[at]wbs.ac.uk) if you would like to suggest a speaker for a future event. Notifications of upcoming DR@W Forum events along with other decision research related activities can be obtained by registering with the moderated mailing list - email behaviour_spotlight at newlistserv dot warwick dot ac dot uk to be added to the list.
If you attend DR@W please take some time to fill in our survey It helps us understand who our audience are and how we can widen participation.
DR@W Forum - Alexandra Jabbour (Warwick, PAIS)
Political scientists have drawn attention to the possibility that individuals in established democracies are affectively polarized. Our knowledge about the extent to which individuals are affectively polarized and dislike supporters of other parties is entirely based on surveys that prime respondents to think about politics and their own partisan identity and political preferences. Our registered report presents a design to investigate the impact of such surveys on estimated levels of affective polarization and to determine if polarization is sensitive to the context within which individuals are asked to rate parties. Using samples from the United States and Germany, we experimentally assess whether measuring affective polarization in a political versus a non-political survey produces systematically different estimates of affective polarization and whether such differences are due to selection or priming effects. Our results help clarify whether these estimates reflect how affectively polarized societies are.