Hendrik Meyer

From Antagonistic Talk to Cooperative Acts: The Effect of Polarization Cues on Newspaper Audiences

Do media depictions of a ‘polarized society’ merely describe division or actually deepen it? We report two laboratory experiments in Germany (Study1 $$N=302$$ ; Study2 $$N=295$$ ). After reading authentic newspaper articles in which brief polarization cues were experimentally included versus omitted, pa...