Estimating the Causal Effects of Cognitive Effort and Policy Information on Party Cue Influence

• In Event: Polarization and Political Communication

Brief Overview

A long-standing theory is that party cues substitute for engagement in effortful thinking and access to policy information. This theory has not been adequately tested. We present the results of two experiments testing a key prediction of the theory.

Authors

• Ben Tappin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• Ryan Mckay, Royal Holloway, University of London