To test who finds these arguments persuasive, researchers ran 15 studies using surveys, experiments, and natural-language analysis across samples from multiple countries. Participants read everyday, non-political vignettes (e.g., skipping dishwashing leading to never cleaning the house) and rated how logical the slippery-slope reasoning seemed. Conservatives consistently rated these arguments as more logical than liberals, even after controlling for demographics, and the pattern appeared across international samples.
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