Dorison and Minson (2022), Study 2 — DM22

In Study 2, participants were asked to watch a video of Bernie Sanders talking about immigration, and Ted Cruz talking about tax reform (each for two minutes), and forecast the emotions of a conservative watching the video.

Usage

DM22_S2

Format

A data frame with 319 rows and 5 variables:

age: [integer] age of participant
gender: [factor] gender of participant, either male or female or non-binary/other
ideology: [factor] self-reported political orientation, with choices very/somewhat/slightly liberal (1/2/3), neither (4), to slightly/somewhat/very conservative (5/6/7).
anxiety: [numeric] average of the four items from the anxiety scale. 0-8 scale, where higher numbers indicate more anxiety
anger: [numeric] average of the four items from the anger scale. 0-8 scale, where higher numbers indicate more anger

Source

ResearchBox 577, https://researchbox.org/577, licensed under CC BY 4.0

References

Dorison CA, Minson JA. (2022). You can’t handle the truth! Conflict counterparts over-estimate each other’s feelings of self-threat. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 170, 104147. doi:10.1016/j.obhdp.2022.104147