Dynamics of sociopolitical polarization and effects of misperception-correcting information around the 2022 Brazilian elections
Anna Petherick, Guilherme A Ramos, Rodrigo Furst, Rafael Goldszmidt, Eduardo B Andrade · 2026
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Description
Petherick's team at Oxford tracked how Brazilians felt about rival camps through the 2022 vote. Five planned survey waves followed two to three thousand people. Liking scales and smarts ratings measured affective polarization across waves. Groups spanned left-right labels, anti-voters, and candidate loyalists.
Lula versus Bolsonaro fans showed the fiercest mutual dislike before the race even began. That heat held through voting, then faded evenly on both sides. Fixing false beliefs about the other side's policy stances softened polarization a lot. Some fixes even shifted their own policy support on hot issues.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Anna Petherick, Guilherme A Ramos, Rodrigo Furst, Rafael Goldszmidt, Eduardo B Andrade |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 83 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |