Citizens as a democratic safeguard? The sequence of sanctioning elite attacks on democracy by Marc S. Jacob is now available in Early View. ajps.org/2024/04/17/cit…

Nice to see Google caring about something we've been talking about since 2018 🤗

Check out our research on discussion quality which covers reasoning, personal storytelling, empathy and respect, and other nuances of discussion quality!!
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Yphtach Lelkes @alvinyxz92

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Unequal and Unsupportive: Exposure to Poor People Weakens Support for Redistribution among the Rich - cup.org/3vP49Qr

- Matias Engdal Christensen (Aarhus University), @thistedpeter & Kim Mannemar Sønderskov (Aarhus University)

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New paper accepted at APSR w/Jae-Hee Jung 'Varieties of Values: Moral Values Are Uniquely Divisive.' There's a common claim that some values are *moral* values and have distinct effects. But this hasn't been systematically tested (1/7) scottaclifford.com/wp-content/upl…

When you just happen to have an N = 90,000 study on hand about exactly what's trending on twitter

We need women advisors like K0k!l J Someone who takes out time from busy schedule and guide on time. I told her let’s see where it goes and she made me work on a slide deck for my MIT Media Lab interviews and It all worked out. I hope I am able to guide people like she does 🙂

support for violence by rural-urban designation

Our paper on Latino voting in 2020 (and beyond) is now forthcoming at the American Political Science Review. Pre-publication draft available here: bit.ly/4a44mgQ

Very proud that my student Derek Holliday has won State Politics & Policy's award for the best dissertation in state politics and policy for his dissertation, The Reaches and Limits of Nationalization in U.S. Politics!

Can't recommend Derek enough to departments looking to hire junior in AP!

A new study from Homa and Duncan Watts at CSSLab at Penn finds that the YouTube recommendation system is less influential on users’ political views than is commonly believed: whr.tn/3U0s20C Knowledge at Wharton

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Conspiracy beliefs famously resist correction, right?
WRONG: We show brief convos w GPT4 reduce conspiracy beliefs by ~20pp (d~1)!
🡆Tailored AI evidence rebut specific arguments offered by believers
🡆Effect lasts 2+mo
🡆Works on entrenched beliefs
osf.io/preprints/psya…

Clear evidence that employers discriminate against nonbinary individuals.

All-else-equal, disclosing that one uses 'they/them” pronouns substantially lowers the chances of getting a job interview.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

Does any shift of voters of color to the GOP mean that race is less important to electoral politics? That's a common argument.

In fact, it's the opposite.

We are less polarized by race, but MORE polarized ABOUT race.

MIchael Tesler and me Good Authority (from the team that published TMC):

goodauthority.org/news/america-i…

How do parents and non-parents decide how children ought to be raised? In a new paper w/ Allison Anoll & Mackenzie Israel-Trummel, we argue social movements–like Black Lives Matter–can shape these choices, unpacking the often black-boxed step in child socialization.

cambridge.org/core/journals/…

The third installment of our Path to 2024 series looks at Americans' attitudes toward artificial intelligence. Worries about AI and its consequences for democracy are widespread: 49.8% expect AI to have negative consequences for the safety of elections.
prlpublic.s3.amazonaws.com/reports/March2…

People often blame journalists for distorting/exaggerating scientific findings to the public. But it's mostly universities' own *press releases* doing much of the damage
bmj.com/content/349/bm…

The overwhelming majority of Democrat & Republican voters (N > 50,000) oppose violations of democratic norms & few support partisan violence

But MAGA Republicans & Younger voters express more tolerance for democratic norm violations & political violence pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

My paper with Patrick Liu on attitude polarization has been conditionally accepted at the APSR. In it, we develop a novel design that uses AI to target 'core issues' on the fly. We unearth key scope conditions that we believe move the literature forward bit.ly/3VAoYtp

A new book, from some of the foremost scholars of partisanship, rigorously investigates when and how partisan animosity matters. Coming in June from James Druckman, Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, Matt Levendusky, and John Barry Ryan UChicagoPress: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

overwhelming majorities of Americans oppose violations of democratic norms & partisan violence. This bipartisan consensus remains unchanged over time; election denialism does not encourage public to express antidemocratic attitudes.
pnas.org/doi/abs/10.107…