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Illusory disagreement over socialism and capitalism in the United States and Brazil
Lucas Woodley; Joshua D. Greene
Nature Communications · 23 October 2026
The finding or development
Participants endorsed similar mixed economic arrangements while naming them differently along ideological lines. Highlighting shared preferences reduced perceived disagreement in US experiments; the authors also report shared preferences beneath different labels in Brazil.
What supports it
Five studies (1,753 participants), including four preregistered experiments (1,640 participants). Published, peer-reviewed accepted article; final typesetting pending.
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Why it matters for design
For UX research, this suggests checking what participants mean by a label before interpreting agreement or disagreement. That application is an editorial connection, not a tested interface finding.
Read with this in mind
Political attitudes in two countries do not establish how interface labels behave. Sampling, effect sizes and attrition were not appraised from the abstract. The results do not make all ideological disagreement semantic.
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-78853-7
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