Motivated inquiry: ideology shapes responses to the Christian Porter rape allegation

Figures & data

Table 1. Descriptive statistics of participant demographics and study variables

	Anti-Inquiry		Pro-Inquiry
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Range
Age	39.20	17.20	36.90	15.90	18-86
Political Orientation	49.90	27.80	48.10	26.60	0-100
GSJ	5.41	1.35	5.18	1.47	1-9
SDO	2.34	1.07	2.42	1.12	1-7
Argument strength	5.78	2.49	6.80	1.83	1-9
Author credibility	6.42	1.72	6.48	1.74	1-9

Table 2. Effects of GSJ, SDO, political orientation and article stance on perceived argument strength

GSJ Model			SDO Model			Political Orientation Model
	b	95% CI		b	95% CI		b	95% CI
Article Stance	1.02***	0.65, 1.39	Article Stance	1.04***	0.67, 1.40	Article Stance	1.02***	0.65, 1.38
GSJ	−.02	−.15, .11	SDO	−.12	−.29, .04	Political Orientation	−.00	−.01, .00
Interaction	−.03	−.29, .23	Interaction	−.47**	−.80, −.14	Interaction	−.02*	−.03, −.00
R2	0.052		R2	0.069		R2	0.063

Bonferroni-Holm corrections for six comparisons have been applied. Significance levels do not change when including age, gender, political orientation, GSJ, SDO, author familiarity, and case familiarity as control variables.

* p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001.

Table 3. Effects of GSJ, SDO, political orientation and article stance on perceived author credibility

GSJ Model			SDO Model			Political Orientation Model
	b	95% CI		b	95% CI		b	95% CI
Article Stance	0.11	−.18, .40	Article Stance	0.08	−.21, .37	Article Stance	0.07	−.22, .36
GSJ	0.19***	0.09, .29	SDO	−.13	−.26, .00	Political Orientation	0.00	−.00, .01
Interaction	−.09	−.29, .12	Interaction	0.02	−.25, .28	Interaction	−.01**	−.03, −.00
R2	0.024		R2	0.007		R2	0.015

Bonferroni-Holm corrections for six comparisons have been applied. Significance levels do not change when including age, gender, political orientation, GSJ, SDO, author familiarity, and case familiarity as control variables.

* p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001.

Figure 1. The interacting effects of SDO and article stance, and political orientation and article stance, on perceived argument strength. Grey bands reflect 95% confidence intervals.

Figure 2. The interacting effect of political orientation and article stance on perceived author credibility. Grey bands reflect 95% confidence intervals.

Data availability statement

The data that support the findings of this study are openly available in OSF at http://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/JMNZC.