https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092656621000787
On a Slippery Slope to Intolerance: Individual difference in slippery slope beliefs predict outgroup negativity Levi Adelman, Maykel Verkuytena, Diana Cárdenas, Kumar Yogeeswaran Abstract Slippery slope beliefs capture the idea that a non-problematic action will lead to unpreventable and harmful outcomes. While this idea has been examined in legal and philosophical literatures, there has been no psychological research into the individual propensity to hold slippery slope beliefs. Across five studies and six samples (combined *N* = 5,974), we developed and tested an individual difference measure of slippery slope beliefs, finding that it predicted intolerance of outgroup freedoms above and beyond key demographic and psychological predictors (Studies 1-2 and 5). We also found that slippery slope beliefs predict intolerance of debated behaviors in two countries (Study 3), and that it predicted agreement with real-world slippery slope examples across the political spectrum (Studies 4-5). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAKSzgpYixFg593%3D%2BPv018DzJE3PcR4tev0dMSC3PodX%3DYgvkFw%40mail.gmail.com.
