Over this past year, the #MeToo movement has put sexual harassment claims front and center in the news. …
We wanted to know whether conservatives and liberals reacted differently when sexual misconduct allegations were made about one of “their own.” Drawing on previous research, we hypothesized that conservatives would express less concern about sexual harassment as a problem in society and would be less likely to condemn a member of their own in-group compared with a member of the opposing out-group.
To test this, we partnered with YouGov to conduct an online experiment with about 1,000 Americans. CONT.
Costas Panagopoulos & Sander van der Linden, Monkey Cage