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Brown, Chris and Ophoff, Groß (2022) Exploring effective approaches for stimulating ideas-engagement amongst adults in England : results from a randomized control trial. Emerald Open Research, 4 (39). doi:10.35241/emeraldopenres.14914.1 ISSN 2631-3952.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.14914.1
Abstract
Background: Ideas always have and always will change the world; with ideas-engagement enabling individuals to become more knowledgeable, better able to make good decisions and better positioned to re-align their values in response to new progressive norms and beliefs. Given these potential benefits, of primary interest is how citizens can be most effectively encouraged to engage with new ideas. Methods: With this study we test the efficacy of two approaches designed to enhance citizen’s perceptions regarding the value of ideas-engagement. Specifically, we recontextualise a previously undertaken small-scale randomised control trial designed to stimulate states of either curiosity or pragmatic prospection amongst two randomly allocated groups of respondents. Our target variables involve the importance respondents attribute to staying up to date, as well as to four related attitudinal variables. Our target audience is the voting age population of England. Results: 515 participants took part in the experiment, with 269 receiving the curiosity stimulating intervention and 246, the prospection intervention. Our findings suggest that, by the end of four weeks, only the intervention designed to promote pragmatic prospection had significantly impacted on the importance respondents attribute to staying up to date. It also positively impacted the value- scores for one of the secondary attitudinal variables (relating to the importance of supporting physical and mental-health). Conclusions: While this study provides useful insight regarding ideas-engagement, further work is needed. In particular, future studies will require a larger sample, so as to ascertain the impact of these approaches on ‘ideas refusers’. Also required is the inclusion of a control group to provide a definitive counter factual. Furthermore, since positive changes in attitudes towards ideas- engagement also ideally leads to changes in behaviours, questions are also needed to examine the sources of ideas respondents subsequently engage with (or not) as a result of these interventions.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- ) | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Idea (Philosophy), Curiosity, Knowledge, Theory of | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Emerald Open Research | ||||||
Publisher: | Emerald | ||||||
ISSN: | 2631-3952 | ||||||
Official Date: | 21 November 2022 | ||||||
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Volume: | 4 | ||||||
Number: | 39 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 14 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.35241/emeraldopenres.14914.1 | ||||||
Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 31 October 2022 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 29 November 2022 | ||||||
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