Message source effects on rejection and costly punishment of criticism across cultures.

ABSTRACT: Subgroups of societies evaluate information differently, leading to partisan polarization and societal rifts world-wide. Beyond mere disagreement about facts or different preferences, we identify a group-based mechanism predicting the rejection of critical messages and costly punishment of the commenter across three previously understudied and representative cultures. Our pre-registration was peer-reviewed within the Leibniz-Institute for Psychology lab-track scheme prior to data collection and, once accepted, funded. Participants (N = 2207) from China (collectivism, n = 786), Canada (individualism, n = 666), and Japan (honor, n = 755) consistently rejected criticism of their own national group that was attributed to a source from a different national group (intergroup criticism), as compa

SUBMITTER: Thurmer JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12003875 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature