Hate Trumps Love: The Impact of Political Polarization on Social Preferences

The author is indebted to Simon Gächter, Daniele Nosenzo, and Silvia Sonderegger for their input on the initial project idea. The author has benefited from feedback that was provided by three reviewers and two editors as well as conversations with Abraham Aldama, Loukas Balafoutas, John Beshears, Gary Bolton, Levi Boxell, Yan Chen, Danny Choi, James Chu, Raymond Duch, Christina Gravert, Felix Kölle, Jeff Lees, Matthew Levendusky, Brendan Nyhan, Kyle Peyton, and Marie Claire Villeval. Input received at conferences (2021 Allied Social Sciences Associations Annual Meeting, 2021 Center for Economic Studies Area Conference on Public Economics, 2021 New York University Center for Experimental Social Science (NYU CESS) Experimental Political Science Conference, 2020 Global Economic Science Association Meeting, FAIR Workshop: “Fairness & the Moral Mind” in Bergen) and invited seminars (Bocconi University, Harvard University, Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, Pompeu Fabra University, University of Innsbruck, University of Michigan, University of Oxford) is greatly appreciated. The author thanks Riley Kennedy for excellent research assistance. The four-part data collection and analyses were preregistered at AsPredicted.org (#42538-40, #52736-7, #52968-9, #55920-3: https://osf.io/auh4k/).