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My new piece in Harvard Business Review describes our work using AI to perform conflict mediation on social media, and how it inspired a new intervention by NextDoor which resulted in a 15% decrease in toxic content! hbr.org/2024/03/genai-…

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

This is a fantastic team - excellent to work with, and providing such a cool service to K-12 education!

Talking about political topics can be difficult, and it’s even harder to do this online! Researchers at BYU & Duke University wanted to see if using AI could help make these chats kinder. Learn more in our newest adapted article: sciencejournalforkids.org/articles/how-c… Lisa Argyle Ethan Busby Chris Bail (chris_bail_duke 🧵)

🚨CAN GENERATIVE AI IMPROVE SOCIAL SCIENCE?🚨 I spent the last year trying to answer this question with the help of some very thoughtful reviewers (and editors) for the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (ungated) : pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

In this #APSRNewIssue article, Lisa Argyle & Mike Barber introduce a new machine learning influenced method to correct for misclassification in Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG), reducing the misclassification error by up to 50 percent. ow.ly/9xwe50RIzQi

Can't wait to be a part of this fantastic event!

New Article! Using text analysis and survey experiments, we show that although people talk about cancel culture in terms of democratic values, in-group vs. out-group partisan dynamics are what actually shift people's support for "canceling" different actors. Ethan Busby

Computational Political Scientists: Ethan Busby and I are organizing a CWC at @spsanews on Generative Language Models. Apply by August 16; Conference in Puerto Rico Jan 8 - 11. Please apply and circulate widely! forms.gle/emcc2HKQnPEwmC…

Feeling nervous about talking politics with your friends and family this election season? New research by BYUPoliticalScience professor Lisa Argyle finds that engaging in positive self-affirmation can affect the way people engage in political conversations. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/15…

Send us your LLM research proposal and meet us in Puerto Rico in January! Deadline in two weeks

Deadline in 1 Week for the LLM CWC at SPSA!

Join us in Puerto Rico to talk AI and political science! Deadline Friday.

Republicans high in white identity do not differ from other Republicans on ideology or policy preferences. But high white identity Democrats are more conservative in ideology and issue positions than other Democrats journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

It was so fun to be a small part of the learning and success of this awesome student (now grad student and professional) team!

This is excellent academic writing advice!

We're excited to announce the 2025 Cooperative Election Study conference: June 1 - 3, 2025 at Solitude Mountain Resort near Salt Lake City, Utah!

Lisa P. Argyle, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Brigham Young University, will be a keynote speaker for #IC2S2 2025 in Norrköping, Sweden. 🎙Artificial Insights? The Promise and Pitfalls of AI in Social Science. Learn more: ic2s2-2025.org.