Tolerance of Controversial Speakers on the College Campus: An Experimental Test of the Principle-Implementation Gap

• In Event: Psychological Approaches to Contemporary Issues

Brief Overview

Using representative samples of students at two universities we experimentally test whether students are more tolerant towards hypothetical white nationalist speaker in the abstract than towards a real white-nationalist speaker on their own campus.

Authors

• Graham W. Wright, Brandeis University

• Kenneth D. Wald, University of Florida

• Nicholas A Rudnik, University of Florida