{"pk":29185,"title":"Consequential Consensus: A Decade of Online Discourse about Same-sexMarriage","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Framing issues as matters of non-negotiable values can increase the perceived intractability of debates. Focusing on theconcrete consequences of policies instead can facilitate conflict resolution. Using a topic model of Reddit commentsfrom January 2006 to September 2017, we show that the contribution of certain topics concerned with protected val-ues to the debate increased prior to the emergence of a public consensus in support of same-sex marriage and declinedafterwards. These topics related to religious arguments and freedom of opinion. In contrast, discussion of certain con-crete consequences (the impact of politicians stances and policy implications) showed the opposite pattern, their increasedprominence coinciding with improved public support for same-sex marriage after 2012. Our results reinforce the mean-ingfulness of protected values and consequentialism as relevant dimensions for describing public discourse and highlightthe usefulness of unsupervised machine learning methods in tackling questions about social attitude change.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Member Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/73x1r54h","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Babak","middle_name":"","last_name":"Hemmatian","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""},{"first_name":"Sabina","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sloman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Carnegie Mellon University","department":""},{"first_name":"Uriel","middle_name":"","last_name":"CohenPriva","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""},{"first_name":"Steven","middle_name":"","last_name":"Sloman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Brown University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29185/galley/19056/download/"}]}