hendricks-2026

Abstract

This study evaluates whether short, LLM-generated arguments using universal moral framings impact extremist attitudes. In two studies with Democrats and Republicans in the United States (N=951), researchers find that universal moral concerns related to welfare, rights, and fairness predict perceptions of political stances as sacred values, and that LLM-generated arguments appealing to individual rights and fairness increase people's willingness to fight and die and justify violence to defend political stances.