Information avoidance in a polarized society

Does Voluntary Disclosure of Polarizing Information Make Polarization Deeper? An Online Experiment on Russo-Ukrainian War

“…Our paper contributes to the current literature on polarization by focusing on the agency that discloses or conceals positions on a polarizing topic. An earlier study, using a similar framework, looked at the correlates and consequences of the decision to learn the partner's position (Chapkovski, 2022a). Despite the fact that there is evidence how the a possibility to select information by a decision-making agent, increases outgroup discrimination (Akın, 2019), so far little is known how the disclosure of information by a partner in strategic interactions influences a decision-maker.…”