This study will examine political beliefs about a variety of issues. You will be asked to briefly explain your own views as well as to try to articulate an opponent's views. Please try to be as genuine as possible, even if you see the same prompt twice. Given today's political climate, we appreciate your candor and honesty. You will be asked to complete 5 short response activities in total, followed by a survey on political attitutes and behavior.

Consider the prompt:

Please describe your own thoughts about this issue, including your views and beliefs, and an explanation of why you believe what you do.
Please provide at least 100 words in your explanation.

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Please think about this question:

In the box below at left, please type all of your own important values, beliefs or ideas that are relevant to your answer.
Please type each separate value, belief or idea on a line of its own; each can be as long or as short as you wish.
To make sure your list is complete, please ask yourself for each item whether there is a reason behind it, and if that reason is missing, add it to the list.
When you are done, hit "submit changes," and your ideas will appear as nodes below.
Now ask yourself whether any of these values, beliefs or ideas are connected to, support, or provide a reason for any other value, belief or idea.
For those that are connected, create a link between two nodes by clicking first one node and then another.
When you are done, click "submit changes," and the figure below will be updated.
Think about any additional values, beliefs or ideas you may have omitted, or connections between them, and add those.
You can also edit an existing idea by double-clicking on an existing node and editing in the box below right, or delete links by double-clicking on two nodes just as you would create a new link.
Please continue this process until you feel the network you have created is a complete representation of your values, beliefs, and ideas on this topic.

Add new ideas

Add new ideas in the box above, each separated
with a carriage return.

Add nodes

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Consider the prompt:

Please describe a different view than your own about this issue. Imagine someone who holds a different view from you, and try to explain their views and beliefs, and to justify why they believe what they do.
Please provide at least 100 words in the explanation.

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Please think about this question:

In the box below at left, please type all of your own important values, beliefs or ideas that are relevant to your answer.
Please type each separate value, belief or idea on a line of its own; each can be as long or as short as you wish.
To make sure your list is complete, please ask yourself for each item whether there is a reason behind it, and if that reason is missing, add it to the list.
When you are done, hit "submit changes," and your ideas will appear as nodes below.
Now ask yourself whether any of these values, beliefs or ideas are connected to, support, or provide a reason for any other value, belief or idea.
For those that are connected, create a link between two nodes by clicking first one node and then another.
When you are done, click "submit changes," and the figure below will be updated.
Think about any additional values, beliefs or ideas you may have omitted, or connections between them, and add those.
You can also edit an existing idea by double-clicking on an existing node and editing in the box below right, or delete links by double-clicking on two nodes just as you would create a new link.
Please continue this process until you feel the network you have created is a complete representation of your values, beliefs, and ideas on this topic.

Add new ideas

Add new ideas in the box above, each separated
with a carriage return.

Add nodes

Continue to next section

This section of the survey explores your views on an issue through a series of questions and answers.