Threat and blame frames in political rhetoric about societal issues lead to neural and political polarization.

Sci Rep · 2026 · PMC13144340 · PMID 41862580

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A marginally significant three-way interaction ( p = .058) was observed, suggesting a potential trend where the combined effect of immigration importance and negative arousal on PVV attitudes was most pronounced in the blame condition.

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Given the exploratory nature of this higher-order interaction and its marginal significance in the large-scale dataset of Study 1, this finding should be interpreted with caution and requires replication.

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