LLMs have been proposed for annotation tasks. But, LLMs are biased and make errors. Can we draw * valid * conclusions from LLM annotations? arxiv.org/abs/2408.15204

Theory predicts that threat experiences shift people towards conservatism and that this is particularly true for those with certain personalities. In our paper forthcoming at SPPS we find limited support for these predictions in the ~real world~ 1/n osf.io/preprints/psya…

Are you a bluesky user? Want to get paid $40💰 for simply using #bluesky + exploring new feeds? Join our study that starts 9/15. Sign-up here: tinyurl.com/nufeedstudy & pls share widely! More info + FAQ👇

🥳 excited to have placed this paper at PNAS Nexus Detailed updated thread will follow but for now: if you’re interested in a novel method capturing norm-pluralism in societies, check out preprint 👇🏻 (also includes a ready-made Qualtrics implementation) dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4…

New Pre-print out today! We're releasing Political DEBATE -- a new set of language models for zero/few-shot classification of political text. The models are open source, small enough to run on your laptop, and as good as proprietary LLMs within domain. arxiv.org/pdf/2409.02078

New pre-print! Want to find ways to heal partisan divisions? Make conversations more self-disclosing. Thread below 👇 osf.io/preprints/psya…

🎉 Excited to share that our paper on Cost-Efficient Subjective Task Annotation and Modeling has been accepted to #EMNLP2024 Findings! Paper : arxiv.org/abs/2402.14101

🚨 New in Nature Communications! While many studies show that negativity drives online virality, we find that predictors of what people like and share can change over time, with ingroup solidarity showing significant viral potential during the war in Ukraine. (1/6) nature.com/articles/s4146…

The science version of “what doesn’t kill me makes me stronger”: Scientists with ‘near misses’ early in their careers outperform those with ‘narrow wins’ in the longer run. nature.com/articles/s4146…

New paper now published in PNAS Nexus 🚨🚨! We test how empathy beliefs can act as a motivational lever to strengthen Americans support for democractic principles — even when these principles conflict with partisan goals. (1/7)

Check out our piece in Scientific American about some of my recent work on cross-partisan perceptions! scientificamerican.com/article/people…

🚨New preprint🚨 Prejudice is widespread today. But has it been historically constant, or has prejudice varied with social structure? A cross-cultural study of 90 societies and an analysis of Chinese historical records suggest that prejudice was higher in centralized states.

New #SPSPblog: From Doomscrolling to Moral Panic, How Social Media Hijacks Your Social Mind by Curtis Puryear ow.ly/5BxE50U4tWP

The Twitter exodus has started, but maybe it should have started long ago? Our new study in Nature Communications shows that political abuse on X is a global, widespread, and cross-partisan phenomenon nature.com/articles/s4146…

👋 I'm recruiting a PhD student Kellogg School Northwestern For students interested in themes of morality, AI, social learning, computational social science. Check out my lab here shorturl.at/OcVpx | apps due 12/15 (shorturl.at/028CE)

Sharing without clicking on news in social media nature.com/articles/s4156… - 75% share without clicking - > partisans content - conservatives share without clicking more (76.94%) than liberals (14.25%) - "the vast majority (76–82%) of [false info] originated from conservative

New paper out in Science Magazine! In 8 studies (multiple platforms, methods, time periods) we find: misinformation evokes more outrage than trustworthy news, when it does it's shared more + ppl are less likely to read before sharing. w/ Killian McLoughlin Kate Klonick M.J. Crockett 🧵👇

👀New preprint! In 3 prereg experiments we study how engagement-based algorithms amplify ingroup, moral and emotional (IME) content in ways that disrupt social norm learning (and test one solution!) w/ Josh Jackson and my amazing lab managers Meriel Doyle & Silvan Baier 🧵👇