Political Communication

Overconfidence in News Judgments is Associated with False News Susceptibility featured image

Overconfidence in News Judgments is Associated with False News Susceptibility

PNAS · 2021

Most people think they're pretty good at spotting fake news — but this paper shows that the gap between how good people think they are and how good they actually are is itself a …

benjamin-lyons
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Love and Anger in Global Party Politics: Facebook Reactions to Political Party Posts in 79 Democracies featured image

Love and Anger in Global Party Politics: Facebook Reactions to Political Party Posts in 79 Democracies

JQD · 2021

Analyzes Facebook emoji reactions to political party posts across 79 democracies to study emotional responses to partisan political communication. The study reveals systematic …

taishi-muraoka
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Fake news may have limited effects beyond increasing beliefs in false claims featured image

Fake news may have limited effects beyond increasing beliefs in false claims

Misinformation Review · 2020

Challenges the prevailing view that fake news has broad effects on political attitudes and behavior. While exposure to false claims does increase belief in those claims, the study …

andrew-m.-guess
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A Digital Media Literacy Intervention Increases Discernment Between Mainstream and False News in the United States and India featured image

A Digital Media Literacy Intervention Increases Discernment Between Mainstream and False News in the United States and India

PNAS · 2020

Can a short online video actually make people better at telling real news from fake? This paper tests a brief digital media literacy intervention across two very different …

andrew-m.-guess
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A Pairwise Comparison Framework for Fast, Flexible, and Reliable Human Coding of Political Texts featured image

A Pairwise Comparison Framework for Fast, Flexible, and Reliable Human Coding of Political Texts

APSR · 2017

Content-coding political texts is one of the most labor-intensive tasks in the discipline — but what if you could reliably outsource thousands of judgments to online workers …

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David Carlson
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Connecting the Candidates: Consultant Networks and the Diffusion of Campaign Strategy in American Congressional Elections featured image

Connecting the Candidates: Consultant Networks and the Diffusion of Campaign Strategy in American Congressional Elections

AJPS · 2015

Examines how political consultant networks facilitate the diffusion of campaign strategies across congressional elections. By mapping consultant ties between campaigns, the study …

brendan-nyhan
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