Dear ICA community,
My co-authors and I are collecting data for a systematic review and meta-analysis of how exposure to personal narratives – often referred to as episodic frames, exemplars, case reports or human interest frames – influence how people attribute responsibility to the individual and collective responsibility for issues. Specifically, we are looking for studies that investigate the effect of exemplars/episodic frames/human interest frames/case reports on responsibility attributions with empirical data.
Therefore, if you have working papers, unpublished papers or papers under review within this area, we kindly ask you to reach out to us, so we can include such research into our systematic review and meta-analysis. We have the following inclusion criteria:
1. The manuscript has to explicitly study exemplars or episodic frames or case reports or human interest frames AND responsibility attributions with empirical data.
2. We include both experimental and non-experimental studies from lab-, survey-, quasi, and field studies.
3. The dependent variable must focus on attribution of responsibility.
4. The independent variable must describe a person. We do not consider studies focusing on events or non-human actors. The independent variable can describe a maximum of four people.
5. All types of participants: MTurk, Non-WEIRD, WEIRD samples, non-representative/representative samples, student samples
6. We only include studies where the effect of an exemplar/episodic frame/case report/human interest frame is compared to thematic/statistical information or to no exemplar (i.e., no information, or a baseline article without the exemplar/episodic frame/case report/human interest frame or an article about a completely different topic).
If you are in doubt of whether your paper would fit the inclusion criteria, we encourage you to reach out to us, as we want to exhaust all opportunities for including relevant research in our systematic review and meta-analysis. The pre-registration of the meta-analysis can be found at https://osf.io/2kuvt
Please contact corresponding author Lene Aarøe (leneaaroe@ps.au.dk), Dept. of Political Science, Aarhus University with any questions.
We greatly appreciate your help with the project.
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Lene Aarøe
Professor, PhD
AIAS-SHAPE fellow, Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies (AIAS)
Aarhus University, Denmark
Email:
leneaaroe@ps.au.dk------------------------------