Belief change in times of crisis: Providing facts about COVID-19-induced inequalities closes the partisan divide but fuels intra-partisan polarization about inequality.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102692
Abstract: Population-based survey research demonstrates that growing economic divides in Western countries have not gone together with increased popular concern about inequality. Extant explanations focus on 'misperception': people generally underestimate the extent of inequality and overestimate… read more here.
Keywords: belief change; inequality; partisan polarization;