User study data - Summaries with personalized persuasive suggestions to mitigate confirmation bias during interaction with online debates

<p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>This data was collected to test the effect of debate summaries and personalized persuasive suggestions to engage with them on participants argument recall after engaging with the debate. It contains interaction data and questionnaire results of 212 participants who interacted with one out of four versions of an online debate page.</p> <p><strong>Variables</strong></p> <p>(names/column headers, description, coding)</p> <ul> <li><strong>display_con</strong>: debate display condition, coding: 1: without summary, 2: with summary and neutral suggestion, 3: with summary and personalized persuasive suggestion, 4: with summary and random persuasive suggestion</li> <li><strong>correct_comp</strong>: proportion of correctly recalled arguments (10 arguments)</li> <li><strong>AO_correct_comp</strong>: proportion of correctly recalled attitude-opposing arguments (5 arguments)</li> <li><strong>AC_correct_comp</strong>: proportion of correctly recalled attitude-confirming arguments (5 arguments), coding</li> <li><strong>assigned_topic</strong>: debate topic participant was assigned to</li> <li><strong>clicked_contribute</strong>: indicates whether participant made a contribution to the debate, binary</li> <li><strong>att_strength</strong>: strength of prior attitude, coding: 3: strong, 2: moderate</li> <li><strong>time_debate</strong>: time spent on the debate page in seconds</li> <li><strong>clicked_showmore</strong>: indicates whether participant clicked on the show more button to reveal two additional items of the summary, binary</li> <li><strong>att_change</strong>: change of prior to post attitude, coding: negative values indicate a weakaning, positive a strengthening of the initial attitude (attitude was measured on a seven-point Likert scale)</li> <li><strong>stps_highest</strong>: highest scoring persuasion category (persuasion profile)</li> </ul>