Revisiting Disagreement in Social Networks: Results from a Series of Survey Experiments

• In Event: Communication Networks: Discussion, Deliberation, Disagreement, and Social Influence

Brief Overview

Past work suggests people rarely disagree with each other when they discuss politics. We reevaluate this claim using two national survey experiments. We show that disagreement is more frequent and occasionally deeper than previous work would predict.

Authors

• Matthew T. Pietryka, Florida State University

• Anand Edward Sokhey, University of Colorado Boulder