Testing egalitarians for hypocrisy requires framing dilemmas around their own commitments.

Evidence

To “catch” Lows being more hypocritical than Highs, you have to turn the tables and put them in conflict over something they believe in. I have been searching for a situation that would do this. For a while, I thought I had found it in the environmental movement. — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 1549

Categorization

• SEED: A methodological insight — that hypocrisy tests only bite when framed inside the subject’s own values — applies broadly to designing survey experiments.