To Discuss or Not to Discuss? How Selective Exposure to Political Discussion Conditions Experimental Findings on Polarization

• In Event: Intergroup Contact, Selection and Avoidance Behaviors, and Depolarization

Brief Overview

People self-select into and out of political discussion settings in their everyday lives. We estimate treatment effects from discussion experiments to understand how discussions differentially affect people who do and do not want to be there

Authors

• Taylor Nicole Carlson, Washington University in St Louis

• Erin Rossiter, University of Notre Dame