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Context matters in social media.

Does the information that people see on social media influence their political views? Is it making people politically more divided? In July 2023, published three papers on an unprecedented study of t…

Thorp, H. H., & Vinson, V. (2024). Context matters in social media.. Science, 385(6716), 1393. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adt2983

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Illusory interparty disagreement: Partisans agree on what hate speech to censor but do not know it.

Whether and when to censor hate speech are long-standing points of contention in the US. The latest iteration of these debates entails grappling with content regulation on social media in an age of in…

Solomon, B. C., Hall, M. E. K., Hemmen, A., & Druckman, J. N. (2024). Illusory interparty disagreement: Partisans agree on what hate speech to censor but do not know it.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 121(39), e2402428121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2402428121

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People Think That Social Media Platforms Do (but Should Not) Amplify Divisive Content.

Recent studies have documented the type of content that is most likely to spread widely, or go "viral," on social media, yet little is known about people's perceptions of what goes viral or what shoul…

Rathje, S., Robertson, C., Brady, W. J., & Van, B. a. v. e. l. . J. J. (2024). People Think That Social Media Platforms Do (but Should Not) Amplify Divisive Content.. Perspect Psychol Sci, 19(5), 781-795. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916231190392

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Incentivizing news consumption on social media platforms using large language models and realistic bot accounts.

Polarization, misinformation, declining trust, and wavering support for democratic norms are pressing threats to the US Exposure to verified and balanced news may make citizens more resilient to these…

Askari, H., Chhabra, A., von, H. o. h. e. n. b. e. r. g. . B. C., Heseltine, M., & Wojcieszak, M. (2024). Incentivizing news consumption on social media platforms using large language models and realistic bot accounts.. PNAS Nexus, 3(9), pgae368. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae368

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Prominent misinformation interventions reduce misperceptions but increase scepticism.

Current interventions to combat misinformation, including fact-checking, media literacy tips and media coverage of misinformation, may have unintended consequences for democracy. We propose that these…

Hoes, E., Aitken, B., Zhang, J., Gackowski, T., & Wojcieszak, M. (2024). Prominent misinformation interventions reduce misperceptions but increase scepticism.. Nat Hum Behav, 8(8), 1545-1553. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-024-01884-x

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In-party love spreads more efficiently than out-party hate in online communities.

In this article, we present the findings of a comprehensive longitudinal social network analysis conducted on Twitter across four consecutive election campaigns in Spain, spanning from 2015 to 2019. O…

Martin-Gutierrez, S., Robles, M. o. r. a. l. e. s. . J. M., Torcal, M., Losada, J. C., & Benito, R. M. (2024). In-party love spreads more efficiently than out-party hate in online communities.. Sci Rep, 14(1), 15700. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-65688-9

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Communicating beyond the information given can make the communicator's attitudes toward a social group more extreme.

Three experiments tested how communicating attributes of initially liked or disliked groups might create more extreme attitudes. We gave non-neutral participants information about previously unknown g…

Decker, K. A., Lord, C. G., & Holland, C. J. (2024). Communicating beyond the information given can make the communicator's attitudes toward a social group more extreme.. J Soc Psychol, 164(4), 531-548. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224545.2022.2133678

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People believe political opponents accept blatant moral wrongs, fueling partisan divides.

Efforts to bridge political divides often focus on navigating complex and divisive issues, but eight studies reveal that we should also focus on a more basic misperception: that political opponents ar…

Puryear, C., Kubin, E., Schein, C., Bigman, Y. E., Ekstrom, P., & Gray, K. (2024). People believe political opponents accept blatant moral wrongs, fueling partisan divides.. PNAS Nexus, 3(7), pgae244. https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae244

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The Politicization of Climate Science: Media Consumption, Perceptions of Science and Scientists, and Support for Policy.

Differential media treatment of climate change, including conservative media's tendency to reject the anthropogenic climate change scientific consensus, has reinforced polarized perceptions of climate…

Ophir, Y., Walter, D., Jamieson, P. E., & Jamieson, K. H. (2024). The Politicization of Climate Science: Media Consumption, Perceptions of Science and Scientists, and Support for Policy.. J Health Commun, 29(sup1), 18-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2024.2357571

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The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment.

We study the effect of Facebook and Instagram access on political beliefs, attitudes, and behavior by randomizing a subset of 19,857 Facebook users and 15,585 Instagram users to deactivate their accou…

Allcott, H., Gentzkow, M., Mason, W., Wilkins, A., Barberá, P., Brown, T., Cisneros, J. C., Crespo-Tenorio, A., Dimmery, D., Freelon, D., González-Bailón, S., Guess, A. M., Kim, Y. M., Lazer, D., Malhotra, N., Moehler, D., Nair-Desai, S., Nait, E. l. . B. a. r. j. . H., Nyhan, B., … Tucker, J. A. (2024). The effects of Facebook and Instagram on the 2020 election: A deactivation experiment.. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 121(21), e2321584121. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2321584121

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Digital Mass Hysteria during Pandemic? A Study of Twitter Communication Patterns in the US during the Stages of COVID-19 Vaccination.

This study examined the public's sentiments about vaccines by analyzing Twitter data during the CDC's vaccination management planning stage in the United States. Sentiment scores were assigned to each…

Jeong, D., Hanson-DeFusco, J., Kim, D., & Lee, C. K. (2024). Digital Mass Hysteria during Pandemic? A Study of Twitter Communication Patterns in the US during the Stages of COVID-19 Vaccination.. Behav Sci (Basel), 14(5). https://doi.org/10.3390/bs14050389

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Between information campaign and controversy: a quantitative newspaper content analysis about COVID-19 vaccination in Switzerland and Austria.

AIMS: Because media portrayal reflects and shapes public opinion and health policy, investigating news coverage of public health issues is highly relevant for public health research and practice. Addr…

Zimmermann, B. M., Paul, K. T., Janny, A., & Butt, Z. (2024). Between information campaign and controversy: a quantitative newspaper content analysis about COVID-19 vaccination in Switzerland and Austria.. Scand J Public Health, 52(3), 253-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/14034948231195388

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