Supporting data for “Behavior, Identity, and Incongruency: When and How are Political Attitudes Moved?”

This thesis adopts a mixed-methods research design to study when and how political attitudes are (not) moved. Specifically, I use survey experiments to test the causal effects of (a) behavior-induced incongruency and (b) interaction between (in)congruency and group identification on the direction and magnitude of changes in political attitudes. In addition, I use field interviews and digital ethnography to explore the microfoundational mechanisms underlying the movement of political attitudes. Both strands of investigation are contextualized in the case of China-Japan relations, focusing on Chinese public's political attitudes toward Japan. <br> The data submitted include (a) datasets, codebook, and R code for the two experimental modules and (b) the interview protocal and anonymized data. <br> The project received ethical clearance by the Human Research Ethics Committe at the University of Hong Kong (Ref: EA220072). <br>