APPARENT BIAS: WHAT DOES ATTITUDE POLARIZATION SHOW?

Benoît, J-P and Dubra, J (2019) APPARENT BIAS: WHAT DOES ATTITUDE POLARIZATION SHOW? International Economic Review, 60 (4). pp. 1675-1703. ISSN 0020-6598 OPEN ACCESS

Abstract

Many, though not all, experiments have found that exposing groups of subjects who disagree to the same evidence may cause their initial attitudes to strengthen and move further apart, or polarize. Some have concluded that findings of attitude polarization show that people process information so as to support their initial views. We argue that, on the contrary, polarization is often what we should expect to find in an unbiased Bayesian population, in the context of the experiments that find polarization.

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Item Type: Article
Subject Areas: Economics
Date Deposited: 23 Apr 2019 08:58
Date of first compliant deposit: 18 Feb 2019
Subjects: Decision-making
Attitudes
Last Modified: 28 Mar 2024 02:48
URI: https://lbsresearch.london.edu/id/eprint/1075
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