- Speaker
- Date
- Friday 15 Sep 2023, 15:30 - 16:45
- Type
- Seminar
- Room
- T3-13
- Building
- Mandeville Building
We explore the social basis of authoritarian orientations, proposing that attitudes are molded by perceptions of what is adequate in a given social setting.
We test this proposition through a pre-registered field and survey experiment in the Norwegian Armed Forces, randomly assigning soldiers to different rooms and finding that assignment to roommates with higher levels of authoritarian orientations increased soldiers' own authoritarianism. Further survey-experimental evidence reveal that learning about others' authoritarianism levels changed both perceptions and attitudes.
The findings suggest that authoritarian orientations have a social basis, rather than being a deeply held and stable orientation shaped merely by formative experiences.
More about Andreas
Andreas is a prolific behavioral economist studying development issues, gender, and the formation of people’s attitudes using a variety of methods. He has recent publications in the QJE, JPE, EJ, Journal of Human Resources, American Journal of Sociology, and American Journal of Political Science.
Registration
If you would like to book a bilateral, join for lunch or dinner on Friday evening, please send an email to dur@ese.eur.nl .
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