From April 2025 -

Evidence Can Change Partisan Minds but Less So in Hostile Contexts - cup.org/3E7A4ja

"in the absence of affective triggers, partisans were persuaded by both congenial and uncongenial information"

- @jinwookim.bsky.social

#OpenAccess

New paper on misperceptions out in PNAS @pnas.org

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Why do people overestimate the size of politically relevant groups (immigrant, LGBTQ, Jewish) and quantities (% of budget spent on foreign aid, % of refugees that are criminals)?🧵👇

My former postdoc @jinwookim.bsky.social shows how information can change beliefs but partisan hostility can undo and even reverse those effects - a fantastic paper that helps bridge conflicting findings in the research on these questions.

New paper with @dianamejordan.bsky.social and sky-less Trent Ollerenshaw! We provide large-N tests of repeated measure designs in survey experiments, showing that they slightly attenuate ATEs relative to post-only designs, but provide large gains to precision. Thread below.

Preprint: osf.io/q6czp

Partisans often seem unwavering in their support for a politician/policy, even when faced with opposing evidence. But recent studies show that partisans can be persuaded. So how can both be true? My new @bjpols.bsky.social ky.social paper explores this Q: doi.org/10.1017/S000...

After a review process so long and intensive that the title changed twice, I'm excited/relieved that "How to Distinguish Motivated Reasoning from Bayesian Updating" is accepted at @polbehavior.bsky.social.

osf.io/preprints/os...

Here is how it's relevant for your Thanksgiving dinner 🦃👇

Took a crack at the Political Communication starter pack. Sorry for all the great folks I undoubtedly missed

go.bsky.app/J1U6jVe

Intergroup moral hypocrisy such that people were more forgiving of transgressions when they were committed by an in-group member than an out-group member

We found evidence of moral hypocrisy among partisans and minimal groups (via
@psychscience.bsky.social):
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

New study: How the relationship between education and antisemitism varies between countries journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Key finding: Association b/w education & stereotype endorsement varies by whether countries supported statements against Holocaust denial & antisemitism

🧵 below

Interested in measuring Attentiveness in Self-Administered Surveys? Check out our new review piece published today in Public Opinion Quarterly:
doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

I am *extremely* happy to share that "The Rhetorical 'What Goes with What': Political Pundits and the Discursive Superstructure of Ideology in U.S. Politics" is conditionally accepted at Public Opinion Quarterly: osf.io/vwqnf

New w/my amazing students: Inoculation discourages consumption of news from unreliable sources, but fails to neutralize misinfo sites.dartmouth.edu/nyhan/files/...

Key findings:
-Inoculation warning re: fake experts reduces misinfo exposure
-But no measurable reduction in misinfo effect on beliefs

A new paper with Ruijun Liu (my undergraduate student at the start of our study) is now published in Research & Politics: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

My interview with NPR's All Things Considered about Trump's dangerous authoritarianism and how the media covers it www.npr.org/2024/03/17/1...

Persuading climate skeptics with facts: Effects of causal evidence vs. consensus messaging journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"both treatments had noticeable effects on belief in human-caused climate change... though we did not observe equivalent patterns for changes in attitudes"