Researchers and practitioners hold complementary but poorly aligned intervention incentives

Evidence

Although many scientists and practitioners are committed to understanding partisan animosity, scientists develop novel and theoretically driven interventions that target social or cognitive processes but are typically less interested in scalability or durability in the real world. By contrast, practitioners are interested in creating powerful examples of real-world depolarization that typically prioritize either durability (such as deploying within a community to stop cycles of violence) or scalability (such as developing a television programme with national reach) but are typically less interested in novelty or measuring the exact process of change. — Rachel Hartman et al., Interventions to Reduce Partisan…, 83

Categorization

• XREF: This is a design-level explanation for heterogeneous effect sizes when comparing intervention types — directly relevant to the reader’s benchmark task. — connects to: Depolarization interventions work in lab settings but fall short of reversing societal polarization. — Derek E. Holliday, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood, Why Depolarization Is Hard: Evaluating…, 73; Experiment design constraints prevented measuring between-visit training effects. — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3123; Interventions based on recategorization fail under real-world constraints

Broader Connections

• Depolarization interventions work in lab settings but fall short of reversing societal polarization. #exemplifies (0.78) — Derek E. Holliday, Yphtach Lelkes, and Sean J. Westwood, Why Depolarization Is Hard, 73
• Interventions based on recategorization fail under real-world constraints #exemplifies (0.76)
• Experiment design constraints prevented measuring between-visit training effects. #exemplifies (0.72) — Dijk, Pim van, Physiology, Psychoacoustics and…, 3123