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- Title
The Conditional Effect of Network Diversity and Values on Tolerance.
- Authors
Ben-Nun Bloom, Pazit; Bagno-Moldavsky, Olena
- Abstract
While recent literature reports that network diversity generates tolerance, empirical data suggest that in Israel, a highly diverse country, tolerance has been in scarce supply. The well-documented importance of personal value preferences (specifically, openness to change vs. conservation and self-transcendence vs. self-enhancement) in producing tolerant views leads us to hypothesize that values function as boundary conditions mitigating the impact of network diversity upon both political and social tolerance. Building on a representative survey conducted in Israel in 2011, we show that diversity contributes to tolerance more when people are open-minded; when conservatives encounter dissimilar attitudes, they are either less affected or respond with increased intolerance. Secondly, those who highly regard the opinions of others and express an individual predisposition for self-transcendence at the expense of self-enhancement are affected by network diversity to a greater extent. Further, the effect of diversity on tolerance is mediated by the perceived threat from the relevant group.
- Subjects
TOLERATION; SOCIAL surveys; TRANSCENDENCE (Philosophy); SOCIAL networks; HETEROGENEITY
- Publication
Political Behavior, 2015, Vol 37, Issue 3, p623
- ISSN
0190-9320
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11109-014-9284-2