Abstraction and Detail in Experimental Design

• In Event: Methodological Advances in Political Psychology

Brief Overview

Experimentalists in political science often face a question about how abstract or concrete their experimental stimuli should be. Our study uses a series of experiments to provide guidance on how to optimize our designs.

Authors

• Jonathan Renshon, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Joshua David Kertzer, Harvard University

• Ryan David Brutger, Princeton University