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@jjhfahey.bsky.social

Political scientist studying bad attitudes (for democracy) and how to reduce them. Assistant Professor @ University of Memphis

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Though see Clayton et. al 2021 β€œElite rhetoric can undermine democratic norms,” which finds exposure to Trump rhetoric decreases trust/confidence in elections. Effect is concentrated among his supporters, though.

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

05.06.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ”‘ takeaway: forcing agents of misinfo to admit they lied is not only satisfying (and kind of funny) but effective at πŸ“ˆ accurate beliefs and decreasing likelihood to consume misinfo in future.

(Big thanks to the editors, reviewers, and friends/colleagues for supporting the project!)

27.05.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I conduct two survey experiments showing respondents clips from Fox News & Alex Jones admitting they lied about the 2020 election πŸ—³οΈ and 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook.

These admissions:

1) reduce all tested misperceptions;

2) reduce intention to watch 🦊 News and Alex Jones in future.

27.05.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Registered report: admissions-as-corrections reduce support for partisan misperceptions and intended partisan media consumption | The Journal of Politics: Vol 0, No ja

My article "Admissions-as-corrections reduce support for partisan misperceptions and intended partisan media consumption," is available @thejop.bsky.social! πŸ‘‡

www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I introduce/test a new form of misinfo correction: admissions-as-corrections.

Summary... 🧡

27.05.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

I’m seeing Luis Antonio Tagle as one of the joint favorites and as much of a progressive as you can expect while being, you know, a cardinal. Unclear whether this is a doubly decisive test though.

23.04.2025 09:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A.I. Pete Seeger cover of β€œKilling in the Name” coming right up

18.02.2025 22:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Everyday Authoritarianism is Maddening and Stupid Eight years ago, I wrote a post on this blog entitled β€œEveryday Authoritarianism is Boring and Tolerable.” A slightly edited version did some numbers when it appeared at Vox as β€œL…

Everyday authoritarianism is mostly boring and tolerable, but it is always maddening and stupid

16.02.2025 19:25 β€” πŸ‘ 101    πŸ” 32    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 4

Quotations putting in a lot of workβ€”but I’m so excited to see this finally out! The best kind of paper: intuitive yet creative; methodologically sensitive yet very readable.

And the lesson? If you give people rights, they take steps to β€œbelong” more to the stateβ€”a win win!

30.01.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

You’re just leveraging unexpected events (errors) in survey fielding (design)

27.01.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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