Crone, F.S. (2024) The effect of three of the Big Five personality traits, Agreeableness, Extraversion, and Openness to Experience on Affective Polarisation after a conversation about a polarised topic. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
A certain amount of polarisation is good for a society, but the growing divide between opposing groups of people results in more affective polarisation. This can have a bad influence on discussions regarding polarising topics, therefore we need to examine what promotes positive communication across different viewpoints. In this study we investigated the effect of openness to experience, extraversion, and agreeableness on affective polarisation in a conversational setting. We expected that a high level of openness to experience and extraversion would mean that people experience less affective polarisation in the otherminded condition, compared to the control condition of like-minded conversations. We expected that a high level of agreeableness would mean that people experience more affective polarisation in the other-minded condition, compared to the control condition. We found no evidence for our original hypotheses, but we did find that extraverted people tend to feel more affective polarisation. Besides, in general, people experience more affective polarisation in a conversation where both them and their conversational partner agree on the topic, but a high level on agreeableness seems to counter this effect. In our explorative analysis, we found that cognitive empathy was lower in the other-minded condition. Besides that, we found that people with a higher score on openness to experience and agreeableness feel more cognitive empathy towards their conversational partner. Our results contribute to the growing literature on how to counter polarisation in society, by illustrating factors that promote positive communication during discussions about a polarising issue.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Koudenburg, N. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jan 2024 14:08 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jan 2024 14:08 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3035 |
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