Incivility is in the eye of the beholder: How social power moderates perceptions of uncivil discourse

• In Event: (In)civility: Determinants and Impacts

Brief Overview

The conjoint experiment is embedded in a survey of 450 White Americans. Overall, this study illuminates how some Whites operate with flexible definitions of what is "uncivil" depending on who is speaking and who is being targeted.

Author

• Samuel Robert Gubitz, Northwestern University