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5 - Decision

To Talk or Not to Talk? (Stage 2)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2022

Taylor N. Carlson
Affiliation:
Washington University, St Louis
Jaime E. Settle
Affiliation:
College of William and Mary, Virginia
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Under what conditions are people most likely to discuss politics? Our focus in Chapter 5 is on the moment of decision itself (Stage 2). We use three novel approaches to answer this question. The True Counterfactual Study asked participants to reflect upon and describe either political discussions in which they had recently engaged or political discussions in which they could have engaged, but chose to avoid. Comparing these descriptions revealed that avoided discussions had larger groups with more disagreement. We then used vignette experiments to manipulate various features of a conversation, finding that individuals were more likely to avoid a discussion if they were in the political minority, less knowledgeable than the others, or conversing with weak social ties. The Name Your Price studies asked people to report how much they would need to be paid to discuss various topics with different groups. Individuals demand more compensation to discuss both political and nonpolitical topics with those who disagree, especially when that disagreement is defined in terms of partisan identity.

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What Goes Without Saying
Navigating Political Discussion in America
, pp. 109 - 129
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Decision
  • Taylor N. Carlson, Washington University, St Louis, Jaime E. Settle, College of William and Mary, Virginia
  • Book: What Goes Without Saying
  • Online publication: 26 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108912495.005
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  • Decision
  • Taylor N. Carlson, Washington University, St Louis, Jaime E. Settle, College of William and Mary, Virginia
  • Book: What Goes Without Saying
  • Online publication: 26 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108912495.005
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  • Decision
  • Taylor N. Carlson, Washington University, St Louis, Jaime E. Settle, College of William and Mary, Virginia
  • Book: What Goes Without Saying
  • Online publication: 26 May 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108912495.005
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