Nature Human Behaviour

, volume 5 , issue 10 , pages 1369-1380

The general fault in our fault lines

Kai Ruggeri ^{1, 2}

Bojana Većkalov ³

Lana Bojanić ⁴

Thomas Lind Andersen ⁵

Sarah Ashcroft Jones ⁶

Nélida Ayacaxli ⁷

Paula Barea Arroyo ⁸

Mari Louise Berge ⁹

Ludvig Daae Bjørndal ¹⁰

Aslı Bursalıoğlu ¹¹

Vanessa Bühler ^{12, 13}

Martin Čadek ¹⁴

Melis Çetinçelik ¹⁵

Georgia Clay ¹⁶

Anna Cortijos-Bernabeu ¹⁷

Kaja Damnjanović ¹⁸

Tatianna M Dugue ¹⁹

Maya Esberg ²⁰

Celia Esteban Serna ²¹

Ezra N Felder ²²

Maja Friedemann ⁶

Darianna I Frontera Villanueva ²³

Patricia Gale ²⁴

Eduardo Garcia-Garzon ²⁵

Sandra J. Geiger ³

Leya George ²⁶

Allegra Girardello ²⁷

Aleksandra Gracheva ^{28, 29}

Anastasia Gracheva ^{7, 28}

Marquis Guillory ¹⁹

Marlene Hecht ³⁰

Katharina Herte ³¹

Barbora Hubená ³²

William Ingalls ¹⁹

Lea Jakob ^{32, 33}

Margo Janssens ³⁴

Hannes Jarke ²

Ondřej Kácha ³⁵

Kalina Nikolova Kalinova ³²

Ralitsa Karakasheva ³²

Peggah R Khorrami ^{36, 37}

Žan Lep ³⁸

Samuel Lins ³⁹

Ingvild S Lofthus ¹⁰

Salomé Mamede ³⁹

Silvana Mareva ⁴⁰

Mafalda F Mascarenhas ⁴¹

Lucy Mcgill ⁴²

Sara Morales-Izquierdo ⁴³

Bettina Moltrecht ⁴⁴

Tasja S Mueller ⁴⁵

Marzia Musetti ⁴⁶

Joakim Nelsson ⁴⁷

Thiago Otto ¹⁹

Alessandro F Paul ⁴⁸

Irena Pavlovic ¹⁸

Marija B. Petrović ⁴⁹

Dora Popović ⁵⁰

Gerhard M Prinz ⁵¹

Josip Razum ⁵²

Ivaylo Sakelariev ³²

Vivian Samuels ²²

Inés Sanguino ⁵³

Nicolas Say ⁵⁴

Jakob Schuck ⁵⁵

Irem Soysal ¹⁹

Anna Louise Todsen ⁵⁶

Markus R Tünte ⁵⁷

Milica Vdovic ⁵⁸

Jáchym Vintr ⁵⁹

Maja Vovko ⁶⁰

Marek A. Vranka ⁶¹

Lisa K. Wagner ⁶²

Lauren Wilkins ¹⁹

Manou Willems ³²

Elizabeth Wisdom ²²

Aleksandra Yosifova ⁶³

Sandy Zeng ¹⁹

Mahmoud A. Ahmed ⁶⁴

Twinkle Dwarkanath ⁶⁵

Mina Cikara ⁶⁶

Jeffrey Lees ^{67, 68}

Tomas Folke ^{1, 2}

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Department of Health Policy and Management, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA |

Policy Research Group, Centre for Business Research, Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |

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Department of Psychology and Mental Health, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |

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PPR Svendborg, Svendborg Kommune, Svendborg, Denmark |

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Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |

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Department of Political Science, School of General Studies, Columbia University, New York, USA |

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Faculty of Psychology, University of Seville, Seville, Spain |

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Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary |

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Department of psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway |

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Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, USA |

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Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria |

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Centre for Behaviour Change, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, UK |

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Carnegie School Of Sport, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK |

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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands |

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Department of Social Psychology, Institute of Work, Organisational and Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany |

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Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland |

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Department of Psychology, Laboratory for Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia |

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Department of Psychology, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, USA |

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Barnard college, Columbia University, New York, USA |

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Division of Psychology and Language Sciences, University College London, London, UK |

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Department of Psychology, School of General Studies, Columbia University, New York, USA |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez, USA |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia |

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School of Education and Health Sciences, Universidad Camilo José Cela, Villanueva de la Cañada, Madrid, Spain |

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UCL Interaction Centre, Faculty of Brain Sciences, University College London, London, UK |

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Department of Neuroscience and Psychology, Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, USA |

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School of General Studies, Columbia University, New York, USA |

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Political Humanities, Euro-Asia Program, Paris Institute of Political Studies [SciencesPo], Paris, France |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany |

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Social, Health and Organisational Psychology, Utrecht, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands |

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National Institute of Mental Health, Klecany, Czech Republic |

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Third Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |

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Department of Organization Studies, Tilburg School of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Tilburg University, Tilburg, the Netherlands |

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Department of Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |

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Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, USA |

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Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal |

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Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK |

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Instituto de Ciências Sociais e Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal |

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Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands |

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Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK |

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Evidence-Based Practice Unit, Anna Freud National Centre and University College London, London, UK |

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Department of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands |

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Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden |

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Department of Social, Economic, and Organizational Psychology, Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia |

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Bezirkskrankenhaus Straubing, Straubing, Germany |

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Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences, Zagreb, Croatia |

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Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK |

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Faculty of Business Administration, University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Science, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany |

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Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Faculty of Arts, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK |

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Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Media and Communications, Singidunum University, Belgrade, Serbia |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |

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Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia |

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Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic |

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland |

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Department of Cognitive Science and Psychology, School of Graduate Studies, New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria |

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Department of Psychology, St. Olaf College, Northfield, USA |

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Columbia University, New york, USA |

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Department of psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |

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Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA |

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Department of Economics, Clemson University, Clemson, USA |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2021-04-22

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Nature Human Behaviour

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DOI: 10.1038/s41562-021-01092-x

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Abstract

Pervading global narratives suggest that political polarization is increasing, yet the accuracy of such group meta-perceptions has been drawn into question. A recent US study suggests that these beliefs are inaccurate and drive polarized beliefs about out-groups. However, it also found that informing people of inaccuracies reduces those negative beliefs. In this work, we explore whether these results generalize to other countries. To achieve this, we replicate two of the original experiments with 10,207 participants across 26 countries. We focus on local group divisions, which we refer to as fault lines. We find broad generalizability for both inaccurate meta-perceptions and reduced negative motive attribution through a simple disclosure intervention. We conclude that inaccurate and negative group meta-perceptions are exhibited in myriad contexts and that informing individuals of their misperceptions can yield positive benefits for intergroup relations. Such generalizability highlights a robust phenomenon with implications for political discourse worldwide. Ruggeri et al. tested perceptions of opposing political party members in 10,207 participants from 26 countries. Results show that beliefs about others are overly negative but could be more realistic with transparency about actual group beliefs.

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author = {Kai Ruggeri and Bojana Većkalov and Lana Bojanić and Thomas Lind Andersen and Sarah Ashcroft Jones and Nélida Ayacaxli and Paula Barea Arroyo and Mari Louise Berge and Ludvig Daae Bjørndal and Aslı Bursalıoğlu and Vanessa Bühler and Martin Čadek and Melis Çetinçelik and Georgia Clay and Anna Cortijos-Bernabeu and Kaja Damnjanović and Tatianna M Dugue and Maya Esberg and Celia Esteban Serna and Ezra N Felder and Maja Friedemann and Darianna I Frontera Villanueva and Patricia Gale and Eduardo Garcia-Garzon and Sandra J. Geiger and Leya George and Allegra Girardello and Aleksandra Gracheva and Anastasia Gracheva and Marquis Guillory and Marlene Hecht and Katharina Herte and Barbora Hubená and William Ingalls and Lea Jakob and Margo Janssens and Hannes Jarke and Ondřej Kácha and Kalina Nikolova Kalinova and Ralitsa Karakasheva and Peggah R Khorrami and Žan Lep and Samuel Lins and Ingvild S Lofthus and Salomé Mamede and Silvana Mareva and Mafalda F Mascarenhas and Lucy Mcgill and Sara Morales-Izquierdo and Bettina Moltrecht and others},

title = {The general fault in our fault lines},

journal = {Nature Human Behaviour},

year = {2021},

volume = {5},

publisher = {Springer Nature},

month = {apr},

url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-021-01092-x},

number = {10},

pages = {1369--1380},

doi = {10.1038/s41562-021-01092-x}

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