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Principal investigator:
Daniel Corstange
Columbia University
Email: daniel.corstange@columbia.edu
Homepage: https://www.sipa.columbia.edu/faculty-research/faculty-directory/daniel-corstange
Sample size: 2073
Field period: 04/29/2016-12/16/2016
1. People receiving a single frame will describe the conflict in terms employed by that frame.
2. People receiving competing frames will ignore the frame content when describing the conflict.
3. People receiving the frame citing democracy and dictatorship will be more welcoming of refugees.
4. People receiving the frame citing moderates and religious extremists will be less welcoming of refugees.
Subjects are prompted to consider the Syrian civil war with the following prompt: "People have explained the Syrian conflict in a number of different ways. For example, some have described it as a conflict between X, and other people have described it as a conflict between Y."
The three manipulations are: "democracy and dictatorship"; "moderates and religious extremists"; "the majority population of Sunnis and religious minorities such as Shiites, Alawites, and Christians"
1. description of the conflict (open response)
2. willingness to accept Syrian refugees in United States (closed response)