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10.57760/sciencedb.43354 2026-07-20T16:21:28Z

2026-07-20 Anthropomorphic Policies for Enhanced Acceptability doi:10.57760/sciencedb.43354 en Public policies in contemporary China are often communicated through formal institutional language, yet their implementation depends on whether citizens perceive them as understandable, relevant, and acceptable. This study examines whether anthropomorphic policy communication enhances policy acceptability by increasing perceived policy closeness, and whether this process is moterated by social and personal norms. Across two experiments, we tested this mechanism in immigration and waste-sorting policy contexts. anthropomorphism; policy acceptability; descriptive norms; personal norms; perceived policy closeness Qiwei Li Zhefei Mao Jie Zhou EMBARGO https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ dataset Science Data Bank