An alternative outcome of expecting future discussions, which would be more desirable from a normative point of view, could be that users become more interested in the topics and engage in a deeper elaboration on the content (Eveland et al., 2004) and more systematic processing. This would result in a stronger effect of argument quality when expecting future interaction, which was clearly not the case in this study. Nevertheless, future research could try to find scenarios in which this route of a stronger elaboration may be taken. Based on assumptions by Tetlock (1983) and Chaiken et al. (1996), this may be the case when people aim to be seen as neutral experts, do not know others’ opinions, and think that their audience is open to contrary views (see also Scheufele & Nisbet, 2013).