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Affirming Reasons Beats Praising Intentions in Disagreement Study
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A preregistered experiment with 558 US adults found that affirming a stranger's guessed reasons produced roughly twice the relational effect of praising their intentions. Neither framing shifted opinions further than a flat counter-argument. The study appeared in Communications Psychology on 12 August.
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