Sweet_Baby_Cheezus

Sweet_Baby_Cheezus t1_iynr0fd wrote

> Though we observed no significant differences in the behavior of Democrats as a result of priming, we found that Republicans—and particularly those with very strong conservative views—were significantly less likely to learn from Democrats when primed about a common enemy.

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>Because our study was in the field during the 2020 Iran Crisis, we were able to further evaluate this finding via a natural experiment—Republicans who participated in our study after the crisis were even less influenced by the beliefs of Democrats than those Republicans who participated before this event.

More accurate title would be "When faced with a common enemy, Republicans are more likely to be against democrats than against the outside foe."

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