ICYMI on KPBS Midday Edition: A new studyfrom UC San Diego's Rady School of Management finds Americans would rather hurt the cause they believe in than support the one they don’t when it comes to politics.
The Rady School of Management at UC San Diego is shown in this photograph from Aug. 23, 2019.from UC San Diego's Rady School of Management finds Americans would rather hurt the cause they believe in than support the one they don’t when it comes to politics.
The study, which was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, surveyed 3,876 people between the winter of 2019 and summer of 2022. Researchers assessed if participants were Republicans or Democrats and then asked if they preferred to add $1 to a donation going to the opposing political party, or subtract $1 from a donation going to their own party.
More than 70% of participants, regardless of their political affiliation, opted to not add a donation to the opposing political party, even though it meant hurting their own political party. The same was true when participants were asked to give money to pro-choice or pro-life causes as well as pro-gun control or anti-gun control causes.
"We believe one of the drivers of peoples' decision making in this context is their identity. To put it in a nutshell, we find that it's more harmful to one's identity to help the other side than to harm their own side," saidwho is joint-author of the study and a doctoral candidate in behavioral marketing at the UCSD Rady School of Management.
Fridman joined Midday Edition to discuss his findings and ways Americans can become less divided to achieve compromise and cooperation.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Researchers have discovered a way to produce cocaine from a tobacco plantUsing genetic modification, researchers have reprogrammed a relative of a tobacco plant to produce cocaine in its leaves
Read more »
Why researchers are teaching AI to play MinecraftOpenAI used 70,000 hours of Minecraft player videos to teach its computer the popular game. Here's why that matters for future technology.
Read more »
Japanese Researchers Faked Data in Spaceflight SimulationThe space agency will reprimand astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, who led the research team, but he's still going to the space station next year.
Read more »
Visa bureaucracy makes scientific conferences inaccessible for too many researchers'Many scholars born in ostracized countries face...drawn-out, oftentimes years-spanning processes when we need to travel. The obstacles take a toll on our professional development...and our mental health,' OmidVEbrahimi writes in this ScienceWorkingLife.
Read more »
Star Wars to science: Researchers harvest water from air to address shortagesIn a nod to science fiction, researchers are developing technology that can pull water from the air.
Read more »
Twitter searches for China protests bombarded by spam and porn, raising alarms among researchers | CNN BusinessTwitter searches for the widespread Covid-19-related protests in China are returning a flood of spam, pornography and gibberish that some disinformation researchers say at first glance appear to be a deliberate attempt by the Chinese government or its allies to drown out images of the demonstrations.
Read more »