Replication of a study from “Lay Theories of Financial Well-being Predict Political and Policy Message Preferences” (JPSP | Krijnen et al. 2022)

We ran a replication of study 2 from this paper, which assessed three sets of beliefs (each measured by averaging responses to three self-report questions) about what causes variation in financial well-being. The original authors predicted that people’s agreement with a given set of beliefs would be more positively associated with support for government goals that are compatible with those beliefs than with support for the other government goals in the study. The original authors’ findings were mostly consistent with their predictions, and 10 of their 12 findings replicated in our study. However, some readers might misinterpret some of the paper’s conclusions (the correlations between each of the three sets of beliefs and support for each of the three government goals differ from what a reader might expect).