Excellent and important, if sobering, work! I’ve gotten the sense that very general social psychology arguments about animal advocacy strategy can go either way (foot in the door vs door in the face, etc.), so it’s refreshing to see specific studies on this that tell me something not at all obvious. I like the preregistration and use of FDR control. Some minor remarks:
“the power (the risk of false negative results)”—I believe this should be the complement of that risk
“If the AFFT articles encourage the view that animal-free alternatives are unnatural, they could strengthen one of the key justifications for animal product consumption.”—Seems like your results for the model with an interaction between reading about AFFT and preference for naturalness have some implications for this. In that model reading about AFFT is no longer significant, nor is the interaction. But I suppose under this hypothesis you’d expect a noticeable negative interaction: the stronger one’s preference for naturalness, the more strongly reading about AFFT decreases their AFO.
Good point that the interaction terms are relevant to that. But yeah, the nonsignificant relationships there don’t tell us much, I don’t think, as the interaction term is presumably just “cannibalising” the effect of AFFT.
Excellent and important, if sobering, work! I’ve gotten the sense that very general social psychology arguments about animal advocacy strategy can go either way (foot in the door vs door in the face, etc.), so it’s refreshing to see specific studies on this that tell me something not at all obvious. I like the preregistration and use of FDR control. Some minor remarks:
“the power (the risk of false negative results)”—I believe this should be the complement of that risk
“If the AFFT articles encourage the view that animal-free alternatives are unnatural, they could strengthen one of the key justifications for animal product consumption.”—Seems like your results for the model with an interaction between reading about AFFT and preference for naturalness have some implications for this. In that model reading about AFFT is no longer significant, nor is the interaction. But I suppose under this hypothesis you’d expect a noticeable negative interaction: the stronger one’s preference for naturalness, the more strongly reading about AFFT decreases their AFO.
Good point that the interaction terms are relevant to that. But yeah, the nonsignificant relationships there don’t tell us much, I don’t think, as the interaction term is presumably just “cannibalising” the effect of AFFT.