Replication of ‘Instrumentally inclusive: the political psychology of homonationalism’ (Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega, 2024)

De Kadt, Daniel ORCID: 0000-0003-2151-8020 (2025) Replication of ‘Instrumentally inclusive: the political psychology of homonationalism’ (Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega, 2024). American Political Science Review. ISSN 1537-5943

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Abstract

Turnbull-Dugarte and López Ortega (2024) argue that increasing exposure to sexually conservative ethnic out-groups causes instrumental support for LGBT+ rights among those predisposed to disfavor the ethnic out-group. The article presents results from two related experiments, one conducted in the UK and a follow up in Spain, where respondents were randomly assigned to read vignettes about anti-LGBT+ protests, and the identity of the protesters was varied. I outline a series of concerns with the article, primarily related to ad hoc empirical choices. The authors use weights (of undisclosed origin) that follow a peculiar bimodal distribution in the second study but use no weights in the first, and inconsistently use robust standard errors throughout. These choices create a pattern of statistically significant results consistent with their theory, a pattern that disappears when either choice is varied. Additional analyses show that, rather than supporting their theory, the second experiment contradicts it.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author
Divisions:	Methodology
Subjects:	J Political Science B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Date Deposited:	10 Nov 2025 09:54
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2025 13:57
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/130088

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