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From Faces to Politics: Vision-Language Models (Sometimes) Link Visual Demographic Characteristics to Ideological Labels featured image

From Faces to Politics: Vision-Language Models (Sometimes) Link Visual Demographic Characteristics to Ideological Labels

PA · 2026

When AI models look at a political campaign photo, do they make assumptions about the candidate's ideology based on race or gender — even when the ad itself is completely neutral? …

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Soyeon Jeon
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Speaking Their Language?: Multilingualism in Party Communication Across Democracies featured image

Speaking Their Language?: Multilingualism in Party Communication Across Democracies

AJPS · 2026

In linguistically diverse democracies, do political parties actually bother to speak minority languages — or do they just stick to the dominant tongue? This paper analyzes Facebook …

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Polarization but Not Populism Strengthens the Association Between Presidential Election Results and Emotions featured image

Polarization but Not Populism Strengthens the Association Between Presidential Election Results and Emotions

PSRM · 2026

Examines how political polarization and populism shape the emotional responses of citizens to election outcomes. The study finds that while polarization amplifies emotional …

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Measuring Google AI Overviews: Activation, Source Quality, Claim Fidelity, and Publisher Impact featured image

Measuring Google AI Overviews: Activation, Source Quality, Claim Fidelity, and Publisher Impact

IMC 2026 · 2026

A large-scale longitudinal study issuing 55,393 trending queries to Google over 40 days to measure when AI Overviews activate, how credible their sources are, how faithfully they …

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Haofei Xu
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Towards a Framework for Creating Trustworthy Measures with Supervised Machine Learning featured image

Towards a Framework for Creating Trustworthy Measures with Supervised Machine Learning

PSRM · 2025

Proposes a framework for evaluating the validity and trustworthiness of measures created using supervised machine learning. The paper argues that standard validation practices from …

ju-yeon-park
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Large Language Models Portray Socially Subordinate Groups as More Homogeneous, Consistent with a Bias Observed in Humans featured image

Large Language Models Portray Socially Subordinate Groups as More Homogeneous, Consistent with a Bias Observed in Humans

FAccT · 2024

Psychologists have long known that people tend to perceive minority and marginalized groups as more uniform and interchangeable than dominant groups — a phenomenon called …

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Messi H.J. Lee
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Idiographic Personality Gaussian Process for Psychological Assessment featured image

Idiographic Personality Gaussian Process for Psychological Assessment

NeurIPS · 2024

Personality psychology has long been caught between two competing visions: models that describe everyone the same way, and models tailored uniquely to each individual. This paper …

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Yehu Chen
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Ends Against the Middle: Measuring Latent Traits When Opposites Respond the Same Way for Antithetical Reasons featured image

Ends Against the Middle: Measuring Latent Traits When Opposites Respond the Same Way for Antithetical Reasons

PA · 2023

Standard political measurement tools assume that people who give the same answer do so for the same reason — but what if a liberal and a conservative both vote "no" for completely …

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Topics, Concepts, and Measurement: A Crowdsourced Procedure for Validating Topics as Measures featured image

Topics, Concepts, and Measurement: A Crowdsourced Procedure for Validating Topics as Measures

PA · 2022

Topic models have become one of the most popular tools for analyzing political text at scale — but are researchers actually checking whether the topics they find measure what they …

luwei-ying
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Closeness and Strategic Participation: Does the Closeness of the U.S. Presidential Election Shape Where College Students Register to Vote? featured image

Closeness and Strategic Participation: Does the Closeness of the U.S. Presidential Election Shape Where College Students Register to Vote?

JOP · 2022

Investigates whether the perceived closeness of presidential elections influences where college students choose to register to vote. The study finds evidence of strategic …

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