Authors
Kai Ruggeri, Bojana Većkalov, Lana Bojanić, Thomas L Andersen, Sarah Ashcroft-Jones, Nélida Ayacaxli, Paula Barea-Arroyo, Mari Louise Berge, Ludvig D Bjørndal, Aslı Bursalıoğlu, Vanessa Bühler, Martin Čadek, Melis Çetinçelik, Georgia Clay, Anna Cortijos-Bernabeu, Kaja Damnjanović, Tatianna M Dugue, Maya Esberg, Celia Esteban-Serna, Ezra N Felder, Maja Friedemann, Darianna I Frontera-Villanueva, Patricia Gale, Eduardo Garcia-Garzon, Sandra J Geiger, Leya George, Allegra Girardello, Aleksandra Gracheva, Anastasia Gracheva, Marquis Guillory, Marlene Hecht, Katharina Herte, Barbora Hubená, William Ingalls, Lea Jakob, Margo Janssens, Hannes Jarke, Ondřej Kácha, Kalina Nikolova Kalinova, Ralitsa Karakasheva, Peggah R Khorrami, Žan Lep, Samuel Lins, Ingvild S Lofthus, Salomé Mamede, Silvana Mareva, Mafalda F Mascarenhas, Lucy McGill, Sara Morales-Izquierdo, Bettina Moltrecht, Tasja S Mueller, Marzia Musetti, Joakim Nelsson, Thiago Otto, Alessandro F Paul, Irena Pavlović, Marija B Petrović, Dora Popović, Gerhard M Prinz, Josip Razum, Ivaylo Sakelariev, Vivian Samuels, Inés Sanguino, Nicolas Say, Jakob Schuck, Irem Soysal, Anna Louise Todsen, Markus R Tünte, Milica Vdovic, Jáchym Vintr, Maja Vovko, Marek A Vranka, Lisa Wagner, Lauren Wilkins, Manou Willems, Elizabeth Wisdom, Aleksandra Yosifova, Sandy Zeng, Mahmoud A Ahmed, Twinkle Dwarkanath, Mina Cikara, Jeffrey Lees, Tomas Folke
Publication date
2021/10
Journal
Nature Human Behaviour
Volume
5
Issue
10
Pages
1369-1380
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
Pervading global narratives suggest that political polarization is increasing, yet the accuracy of such group meta-perceptions has been drawn into question. A recent US study suggests that these beliefs are inaccurate and drive polarized beliefs about out-groups. However, it also found that informing people of inaccuracies reduces those negative beliefs. In this work, we explore whether these results generalize to other countries. To achieve this, we replicate two of the original experiments with 10,207 participants across 26 countries. We focus on local group divisions, which we refer to as fault lines. We find broad generalizability for both inaccurate meta-perceptions and reduced negative motive attribution through a simple disclosure intervention. We conclude that inaccurate and negative group meta-perceptions are exhibited in myriad contexts and that informing individuals of their misperceptions can yield positive …
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K Ruggeri, B Većkalov, L Bojanić, TL Andersen… - Nature Human Behaviour, 2021