ValueBased Interaction

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Value-Based Interaction Attitude Formation

• Dominick Wright
• EITM-Michigan 2006
• University of Michigan

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Motivation ? A lot of talk but wheres the model?

• Lack of a micro-foundational model for mass
  opinion/attitude-formation independent of elite
  (e.g., political and media elites) influence.
• Not just about race
• Civil rights for the socio-politically
  marginalized (e.g., gays, immigrants,
  ethno-religious factions)
• War on Terror (e.g., Islamist movements and
  internal security measures)

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Larger Premise ? Socio-Political Processes Within
Across Levels

• L1 Atomistic and interactive individuals
• L2 Atomistic and interactive elites
• L1?L2 The policies that emerge from the
  conditional interactions of the two
• Empirical Requirement
• Understand independent induced policy-preference
  formation processes at each level before
  developing a model that synthesizes the two.

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Existing Debates ? Social Psychology Attitude
Formation

• Psychologically Motivated Attitude Formation
• Extent and character of symbolic politics (Kinder
  and Sears v. Sniderman)
• Conditions, conditions
• Independence and interaction between stable
  values and the caprice of group-oriented (e.g.,
  racialized) politics

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Existing Debates ? In-Group/Out-Group Competition
Attitude Formation

• Group-threat (Bobo Camp)
• Competition between members of socially salient
  groups over limited and diminishing resources
• Conditional group-threat (numerous detractors)
• Mitigating effects of individual education and
  demographic stability
• Observed contradictions
• Theory disconfirming observed support for David
  Duke

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Focus ? Atomistic V-B Interaction and Opinion
Formation

• Value-based social interaction
• Iterative one-shot V-B PD
• Value systems (Rokeach Schwarz) Core
  preferences (Chong)
• Parameters Variance of Intra and Inter-Group
  Value distributions
• In-group/out-group interaction
• Social learning with internal and environmental
  rigidities
• Parameters Beliefs, values, and environment
• Issue framing
• Exogenous wording of questions
• Perceptions
• Crime closeness to other group
• Preferences
• Punishment level end discrimination

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Value-Based Prisoners Dilemma

• A not-so-cute story
• Day at work
• Conversation (full information)
• Unrealistic but serves as a baseline
• Evenly divide or attempt to steal daily wages
  (imperfect information)
• Update group-based beliefs conditioned on
  co-workers revealed preferences and behavior
• Values at play
• Wealth (concurrent)
• Conformity (concurrent)
• Tolerance (ex post)

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V-B PD V-B Social Interaction Game Payoff
Structure Mixed-Strategy Equilibria