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Hi, this is very interesting.
Let me do a few remarks:
The narrative dealt with slavery, which is not only a very emotion-arousing topic and especially strong due to America's history. So, I guess the results would be more reliable if both argument and narrative dealt with the same topics.
It is also impressive that the combination of argument and narrative scores higher than narrative only. This difference should be attributed to the argument? (or maybe you could use another group with two narratives, to see if things add up)
I also was impressed that the groups were already very prone to donation. And, related to that, the differences are really small (one hypothetical dollar). So that neither narrative nor arguments seem to do much difference.
I'd also love to see some study focused not on the increasing-effect, but on the changing-opinion-effect. To see if narratives could change the way people who do not believe in altruism see the world? Or if for that matter arguments are more effective.
I'm looking forward to the final version,
Best,
Celso
Nov 25, 2018, 3:44:49 PM
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