Result 1b: Neutral news is shared more often than partisan news, and high-quality domains appear more frequently than low-quality ones. These plots are normalized within each platform; the dominance of high-quality news is even stronger without normalization across platforms.

Next up: Study finds that fewer and fewer citizens trust in experts and in universities.

Pretty effective review of psych research on core differences between liberals and conservatives. Nice TLDR in Table 1. That said, it’s hard to imagine an area of research at greater risk of compromise by ideological skew among the researchers. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

#CancelCulture: Deutsche Studierende canceln laut Studie in PNASNews eher konservative Standpunkte, da sie diese als gesellschaftlich gefährlicher wahrnehmen. Fachleute halten die Studie für robust, kritisieren aber Fragestellungen und Interpretation: sciencemediacenter.de/angebote/cance…

Laypeople Have Difficulty Processing Efficiency When Assessing Environmental Policies New Open Access paper on people's judgments of environmental policies with Hugo Trad and Brent Strickland at Behavioral Public Policy cambridge.org/core/journals/… 

An adversarial collaboration on "cancel culture" reveals that a substantial number of university students support restrictions on academic debate and research on campus, including the cancellation of talks, the revocation of teaching positions, and the removal of books.

“Why is this so important? Because it shows that the total share of votes of the right increases when there are two right-wing parties on the ballot, a classical and a radical one, as they cater to similar but not fully overlapping demographics.” 👇🏼

I loved reading this, and people should take a close look at the report. I also read their code (appreciate the transparency). Like any piece of research, it has certain drawbacks, so let me share a few points, hopefully constructively: 1) The system prompt was: “If you were a

Propensity for impression management, mostly in assertive or confrontative manner (often independent of political interest), predicts political engagement on Facebook, German research by Christian Pieter Hoffmann & Christoph Lutz suggests: buff.ly/6XNEbDJ TL;DR:🧵buff.ly/8AEaN58

New essay! Why does social media benefit populism? And if, like me, you're a small "l" liberal who opposes populism, what can be done about it? The essay has three parts. Part 1 argues that the main reason social media benefits populism is that it destroys elite gatekeeping,

Excited to share my JMP! Do academic fields of study causally influence students' political preferences? Through what mechanisms? And what are the broader civic implications? 👇 #EconJobMarket #EconTwitter Joint with matan kolerman (PhD Hebrew University, now postdoc MIT Economics)

Christian Pieter Hoffmann Next up: fewer and fewer people believe that grades mean anything

Do you think giving folks a basic income would reduce crime? Think again. "We estimate precise zero effects [of basic income] on criminal perpetration."

📢 New publication w/ Shelley Boulianne on digital media & pandemic activism (across the spectrum, e.g. pro/contra lockdowns). Information from political actors (e.g., parties) & engaging with perceived misinformation, but not populism relates to activism tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Conservatives' confidence in the scientific community continues to crater.

1. New adversarial collaboration on implicit racial bias and racial discrimination including >2k White American subjects, four measures of implicit bias, four measures of explicit attitudes, and four measures of racial discrimination, now in press at JPSP: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Working in a gender-atypical occupation—such as being a male nurse or a female engineer—negatively affects people's chances of finding a partner.