If you're at #MPSA2025 and interested in AI as a tool for persuasion, I will be presenting our paper comparing effects of AI and human source cues in reducing certainty in false beliefs on Saturday at 5:10pm (Political Knowledge, Palmer House 7th floor)

Pre-print: osf.io/preprints/os...

Interestingly, we find that people do punish the incivility of co-partisans. The presence of the control here suggests that respondents rewarded co-partisans for being critical of the out-party, but this benefit is extinguished when they are expressed in an uncivil manner.

Point allocation difference between uncivil out-party profiles and civil ones were not significant. Comparison with the control (no tweets) suggests that ppl may punish out-partisans for any opposing views, regardless of how they are stated.

🚨 New paper out w/ @ericmerkley.bsky.social in Political Behavior, "The Nature of Online Talk: Incivility of Opposing Views and Affective Polarization"

Link to paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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