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This study is a follow-up of a previously preregistered experiment on the effects of being exposed to an authoritarian populist discourse on moral value threat and tolerance. Supporting our initial hypothesis, in the previous study we observed that an authoritarian populist discourse elicits more value threat compared to a moderate discourse, even when controlling for discourse-participant political orientation matching. We also hypothesized that those participants exposed to the authoritarian populist discourse become less tolerant to alternative political options. This hypothesis was not supported by the data as the analysis of variance did not yield a statistically significant main effect of the type of discourse on tolerance. However, we find an interaction with the variable of satisfaction with democracy. The latter moderated the relationship between the condition and political tolerance, such as tolerance for those satisfied with democracy tended to decrease in the authoritarian populist discourse, while the trend was reversed for those dissatisfied. In the present study we aim to replicate this findings, while also extending them in two main ways: - First, we seek to understand which kind of values are threatened by the populist authoritarian discourse. While it was hypothesized that values would be threatened by this discourse regardless of political orientation, the fact that the value threat scale was content free opens up interesting questions. On one hand it could be that people feel their own personal and ingroup values threatened in all cases, regardless of sharing political orientation with the leader or not. This would mean that the leader elicits a sense of being attacked to those likeminded, while more directly atacking those with opposing values. However, another possibility is that those that share a similar political orientation with the leader especifically perceive their democratic values under attack. This would imply that people share the general outlook of the leader but disagree on his methods. To provide an answer to these questions we will look at this more closely by measuring three types of value threat: threat to personal values, threat to democratic values and threat to social values. Aditionally, as we are mostly interested in the nuances of value threat for those in favour of the political leader, we modify the procedure so that the political orientation of participants and the leader will always match and its effects will be added in the models as a covariable. - Second, aside from replicating the interaction effect of the experimental condition and satisfaction with democracy on tolerance found in the previous Study, we also seek to add a measure that captures agreement with specific intolerant actions. Accordingly, we will include Voelkel's et al. (2023) scale of support for undemocratic practices. |
