End or Trend? Separating the Effects of Average, Slope, and Endpoint of Sequences in Evaluations of Political Outcomes

• In Event: Surveys and Experiments

Brief Overview

Averages, slopes, and ends of sequences of policy outcomes jointly affect how people evaluate them. Yet they cannot be independently varied. To isolate their effects, we present an experimental method that randomly manipulates pairs of properties.

Authors

• Talbot M Andrews, University of Connecticut

• Markus Prior, Princeton University