Bradley Wood-MacLean

Evaluating Artificial Intelligence Use and Its Psychological Correlates via Months of Web-Browsing Data | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking Despite widespread discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on society, little work has objectively measured how often people use this technology in the wild. The present article ...

AI usage accounted for less than 1% of online activity and “the most consistent predictors of AI use across studies were…Machiavellianism, narcissism, psychopathy,” i.e., dark triad personality traits. Nice. www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1177/...

LLMs as annotators: the effect of party cues on labelling decisions by large language models Humanities and Social Sciences Communications - LLMs as annotators: the effect of party cues on labelling decisions by large language models

Just *published* our paper with @westernupolisci.bsky.social PhD student, Hunter Driggers, on LLM bias from party cues in annotation tasks. We extend a previous study showing annotation bias from human coders in the presence of party cues… LLM show similar bias 🧵:

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The killing of Charlie Kirk is part of a grim pattern of political violence in America. This is what the data show econ.st/4nqZysO

I’m incredibly grateful for my time at UBC, especially to my supervisor, @sborwein.bsky.social, for her support and guidance. While I look back on this chapter with pride, I’m also excited to look ahead as I begin my PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto.

Using regression analysis, I demonstrate this relationship, and through structural topic modeling of open-ended survey responses, I show that people living in neglected areas explicitly recognize and describe these inequalities...

In my thesis, I show that objective political neglect — defined as reduced access to infrastructure, hospitals, and broadband — is a primary driver of place-based affective polarization in Canada...

I’m very proud to share that last week I successfully defended my Master’s thesis, “The Material Origins of Place-Based Affective Polarization in Canada.” Its now available on the UBC library: open.library.ubc.ca/soa/cIRcle/c...

🚨New Publication🚨

Using the entire #Canadian Election Study (1965–2021), I examine voter turnout by class, education, & income over time & test whether the offerings of political parties impact these relationships.

Available #OpenAccess in @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social
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📺Do TV ads sway voters in presidential primaries?

➡R Bird & M Peress develop a new method to estimate ad effects and find that both positive and negative ads boost support—but negative ads work best www.cambridge.org/core/journal... #FirstView

🚨New open access article out at @cjps-rcsp.bsky.social on the (lack of) partisan media echo chamber in Canada as demonstrated with behavioural data. Check it out! 1/

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Proud to have presented our coauthored paper @cpsa-acsp.bsky.social on immigration rhetoric in party manifestos. Honoured to work with Salar Asadolahi, @mjdonnelly.bsky.social , @mattpolacko.bsky.social & Marc-Antoine Rancourt. This was truly a team effort! Thanks to everyone who came.

Hi! The raw counts are not included, but you can calculate it easily. Just multiply each policy variable (format: perXXX) by the “total” variable and divide by 100.

Autistic 4th Grader Goes Viral For Powerful Rebuke To RFK Jr.: 'I'm Not Broken' Beautifully stated, young man!

Bravo, young man! www.comicsands.com/autistic-boy...

Me trying to keep up with the DiD literature.

Donald Trump's approval rating collapses with rural Americans Rural voters have long been a cornerstone of Trump's base, and any slippage in their support could have major implications for future Republican success.

Some expected. Some surprises.

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They are obviously slow learners

Does political sophistication moderate how citizens use information to infer left-right distances between parties? Research identifies numerous factors associated with citizens’ perceptions of party ideologies, including the Left-Right orientations of parties’ election manifestos, governing coalition arrangemen...

🚨🎉Very excited to share our new paper with @rwillh11.bsky.social, James Adams, @simonweschle.bsky.social, and @cbwlezien.bsky.social!! Out today @JEPOP

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A short thread 🧵

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One of these things is not like the other.

Measuring rural and urban consciousness in Europe A rural consciousness, encompassing a rural identity and resentments directed at urban areas and the political elite, has emerged as a key explanation…

Can rural and urban #consciousness be measured in #Europe? New publication in @electoralstudies.bsky.social from our project on the Rural-Urban Divide in Europe #RUDE

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That’s really disappointing, especially in light of how recent rhetoric has strained Canada-US relations. Solidarity should be more than symbolic—it should come with real support and understanding. I’m sorry you had to go through that.

"Education as Identity? A Meta-Analysis of Education-Based In-Group Preferences in Candidate Choice Experiments" by Elizabeth Simon and Stuart J. Turnbull-Dugarte.https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/730745

Can norm-based information campaigns reduce corruption? by Aaron Erlich and Jordan Gans-Morse is now available in Early View. @aaronerlich.bsky.social @jgansmorse.bsky.social
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Chief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Supreme Court and Judiciary In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice decried violence, intimidation and disinformation and warned against defiance of court rulings.

Judicial independence is under grave threat on several fronts, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote on Tuesday in a year-end report on the state of the federal judiciary.

Assad flees to Moscow as Syria rebels capture Damascus | CNN The long rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is over, after rebels swept into the capital Damascus on Sunday. Follow the latest live news updates here.

And there it is: Assad in Moscow.
Maybe he can move in next to Yanukovych

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New in Electoral Studies: “Are leftist or rightist voters better substantively represented? The effects of variance in district magnitude on party-voter ideological congruence” by Robin E. Beast: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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How to cope with an increasingly turbulent world?

Currently, I'm cuddling with Mabel & avoiding reality entirely.

A thread about whether the global – and American – center-left needs a different kind of liberalism. These are thoughts triggered by Trump’s victory in the United States and the swing against mainstream incumbents in many other elections around the world.