Mitigating Support for Political Violence through Social Proof

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Brief Overview

Our survey experiment seeks to understand how information about peer attitudes may decrease support for political violence in both the US and Kenyan contexts; we pull subjects from areas with high support of political violence.

Authors

• Elle Diether, The University of Texas at Austin

• Jenna Salzman, The University of Texas at Austin

• Stephanie Garza, The University of Texas at Austin