Supplemental Material for Artistic Activism: Can Aesthetic Reception Reduce Adverse Effects of Disruptive Protest?

2) What's the main question being asked or hypothesis being tested in this study?The main question is whether, in the reception of media coverage about protest actions, negative effects of disruptive protest actions are mitigated if these protest actions are art actions.A negative effect is defined as increased perception of protest as a) extreme and b) immoral, decreased c) identification and d) emotional connection with the protestors, and decreased e) support for the protesters and f) support for their cause.H1: Disruptive protest actions lead to negative effects; stronger disruption has stronger negative effects.H2: At medium levels of disruption, the negative effects are smaller for artistic protest action compared to an equal medium level of disruption with no art action.This difference between artistic and non-artistic protest action is weaker or absent if protest is peaceful (no disruption) or extreme (high disruption).3) Describe the key dependent variable(s) specifying how they will be measured.As a manipulation check the participants respond to the statements "The protestors were troublemakers." and "The protestors created art." on a scale from 1 (do not agree at all) to 6 (fully agree).As DVs participants answer to the questions a): "How extreme do you find the protesters' behavior?";b) "How immoral do you find the protesters' behavior?";c) "How much do you identify with the protesters?"; d) "How sympathetic do you find the protestors?"; e) "How much do you support the protestors?"; f) "How much do you support the protesters' cause?" on a scale from 1 (not at all) to 6 (very much). 4) How many and which conditions will participants be assigned to?Between-subjects-factor (3 levels): protest action either peaceful (no disruption), disobedient (medium disruption) or extreme (high disruption).Between-subjects-factor (2 levels): protest action non-artistic (no art actions present) or artistic (art actions present).Repeated measures within-subjects: Participants will read three media reports, each in the same condition, randomly presented, and respond to the key variables after each report.