Really excited that our book just came out!
The Power of the Crowd:
How the Public Can Both Spoil and Improve Social Media as a Source of Information
Open access for the next 2 weeks!
09.10.2025 20:35 — 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
The Effects of Forecasts on the Accuracy and Precision of Expectations
Abstract. Quantitative forecasts have become increasingly prominent as tools for aiding public understanding of sociopolitical trends. But how much, and wh
Out now at @poqjournal.bsky.social! Do election forecasts set realistic election expectations? doi.org/10.1093/poq/... 🧵 (w/ @mbarnfield.bsky.social, @florianstoeckel.bsky.social, @benlyons.bsky.social, @vittoriomerola.bsky.social, @jasonreifler.bsky.social and other awesome BlueSky-less colleagues)
12.05.2025 10:46 — 👍 22 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 3
Ah, good company. Someone else from the Debunker lab and I got a desk reject from them for a paper just a few days later.
14.02.2024 08:25 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Can social media users help others spot misinformation by posting comments that flag false content?
Yes, but there is a downside
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
UK, DE, IT; N > 6,600
With Sabrina Stöckli, Besir Ceka, Chiara Ricchi, @benlyons.bsky.social & @jasonreifler.bsky.social y.social
14.02.2024 08:12 — 👍 19 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
New article out in Communications Psychology, with team led by @florianstoeckel.bsky.social & Sabrina Stöckli
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
My takeaway would be that in low-motivation settings, presence of a refutation matters more than its strength, accuracy, etc.
13.02.2024 23:25 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Wo steht das Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht politisch? Und kann generative AI uns bei einer Einordnung helfen?
BSW: Einordnung auf Basis des BSW-Gründungsmanifests.
Andere Parteien: unklar auf welcher Basis ChatGPT einordnet, insbses. im Vgl. zu üblichen Verfahren (Expertsurvey, Manifesto-Kodierung).
08.01.2024 10:47 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
4/n I will try to foster discussions on what we can do about it, both inside & outside of the classroom (e.g.: www.AImeetsPolitics.org).
Please get in touch if you are also working on this and want to discuss the topic or collaborate on research.
27.12.2023 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
3/n For early work and reasons, see for instance Smriti Parsheera's paper from 2018 ("A Gendered Perspective on Artificial Intelligence"), though there is obviously much more.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
27.12.2023 16:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
2/n The new opportunities that ChatGPT & other applications offer are truly mind-blowing (at least for me). What's also mind-blowing is the extent to which AI applications and LLMs are reproducing stereotypes and biases. There is thankfully a growing debate & it is of course not at all a new issue.
27.12.2023 16:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
1/n Let's urgently talk (more) about gender biases and AI! "Give me a photo that shows how "ai meets politics"" gets me the photos below (DALL-E).
27.12.2023 16:24 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Refuting Misinformation: Examining Theoretical Underpinnings of Refutational Interventions
What are the theoretical underpinnings of refutational interventions?
Our 🚨new paper🚨 examines:
- prebunking
- debunking
- narrative counters
Part of The Psychology of #Misinfo special issue ed. by @lkfazio.bsky.social & @gordpennycook.bsky.social.
commsky
authors.elsevier.com/a/1iFp3,rU%7...
18.12.2023 19:52 — 👍 41 🔁 21 💬 3 📌 0
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Societal COmmunication in times of PErmacrisis - a consortium of more than 24 scientists analyzing how profound and long-lasting crises influence the information behaviour of citizens, social coexistence and political decision-making processes
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Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Exeter, UK. Winner of the ‘Whose Lecture is it Anyway’ Comedy Improv trophy!
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UCLA Political Psychologist. Director of Race, Ethnicity, Politics, & Society (REPS) Lab. Newby accordionist 🪗. Arriba El Grullo, Jalisco 🇲🇽.
Political scientist at Durham University | Political behaviour, public opinion, political economy, political psychology - anything that helps me understand why people view the world the way they do
Social psychologist at ELTE University, Budapest
Social Psychologist, intrigued by Social Influence & Misinformation. Founder of Scholen Veilig, advocating for Safe Schools & Clean Air. Follow: bsky.app/profile/scholenveilig.bsky.social #SocialPsychology #Science #Misinformation #SafeSchools #CleanAir
Assistant Professor, University of Exeter | Collaborator, LSE | Research & teach digital media in contexts of migration, identity, nationalism, post-conflict justice & peacebuilding | Mixed-method research | Londoner
Associate prof of psychology Vanderbilt Univ, studies how adults and children learn true and false information, she/her, lkfazio.com
Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and EUI-Florence || comparativist, Europeanist, multilevel governance, political parties, public opinion, CHES -- https://hooghe.web.unc.edu
Lecturer in Politics, Cardiff University and Editor, PRX Journal. Visiting Fellow at LSE European Institute. Researches far right and differentiated integration. Personal website: www.martalorimer.com
Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University
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Persuasion in Parallel: https://alexandercoppock.com/coppock_2023.html
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Polisci, political econ. of redistribution, membership politics, measurement, insurance, free riding perceptions, in no special order. Looking for a book titled "Fair Enough?" ? Here it is 👇
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Professor of political science at Stanford. State formation, religion, political parties, Europe, etc. Amateur electrician.
Assistant Professor at Bocconi University. Research on immigration, refugees, political violence. https://www.ala-alrababah.com
Ass. Professor of Political Science at the University of St. Gallen, School of Economics and Political Science (CH)
Mom of three and one border collie
Assistant professor @unileiden.bsky.social | Interest representation | Public policy | Political behaviour | Comparative politics and EU | Methods | Mom of 2
Professor of Social Policy, Inequality, and Opportunity at University of Oxford. Director, Inequality Programme at INET Oxford. Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College.
