Do pro-choice and pro-life people overestimate group differences?
Present Monday Dec 5th Chambers, Baron, and I showed that pro-life advocates (and pro-choice advocates) propose two strong values that they wrongly think the opposing group disagrees with. Pro-lifers emphasize moral sexual behavior and the value of human life (and assume pro-choice advocates do not). Pro-choice advocates emphasize keeping the government out of highly personal behaviors (and assume pro-lifers do not support this value). Well test whether this hypothesis is supported (assuming we can find people on both sides of the issue). Good project for any social science major, biology and natural science majors, and humanity majors. Youll want to seek out and find people you think might have strong pro-life or pro-choice convictions. Such people can be friends, professors/students in womens studies programs, and people you visit/call who you think have a vested interest in the topic (e.g., people working at clinics). Ive already attempted to contact right to life organizations thro
