APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Who's Paying for This? an Experiment on Political Signaling and Bias in Political Questionnaires
- Cristian Rodriguez
Universidad de los Andes - Cristian Rodriguez
University of California, Irvine - Peter Ditto
University of California, Irvine
Abstract
We tested whether researchers’ political cues affect responses in political surveys. Online participants completed political attitudes scales under a randomly assigned political banner, signaling political figures or values. Results mostly show no significant differences among conditions, nor interaction effects with ideology; yet data suggest that Clinton primes reduced sexism.
Bias
