Ben Lyons

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Jeremy Allen White's 'Star Wars' Hutt Character Will Be Jacked AF Get ready for Rotta the Hutt.

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The Poverty of Moral Foundation Messaging Prominent scholars have argued that reframing political positions and issues in terms of moral foundations that appeal to conservatives or liberals can attract more individual-level support for tho...

Reframing policy arguments with opponents' moral foundations did not change policy opinions across 5 issue areas:
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

full text should be here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

The age gap of health misinformation - Nature Aging Who is more likely to encounter low-quality health content online? Using four weeks of digital trace data, Lyons and colleagues identify a clear age gap. Although overall exposure to low-credibility h...

with accompanying commentary: www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Now out in @nataging.nature.com: Exposure to low-credibility online health content is limited and is concentrated among older adults www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Linking discernment data with exposure from web and YouTube, comparing health vs politics exposure, etc. Lots of good stuff.

new preprint (led by Andy King): osf.io/preprints/ps...

Health info seeking is an extremely common measure in health comm, but we find limited overlap in self-report and trace evidence for HIS. Some evidence that measurement correspondence increases at high volume.

comments welcome!

new preprint (led by Andy King): osf.io/preprints/ps...

Health info seeking is an extremely common measure in health comm, but we find limited overlap in self-report and trace evidence for HIS. Some evidence that measurement correspondence increases at high volume.

comments welcome!

Information on public opinion has lasting effects on second-order climate beliefs, but minimal and ephemeral effects on first-order beliefs Across western democracies, pro-climate beliefs are widespread. Yet, vocal minorities contest scientific consensus about global warming. Perhaps as a …

How does information on public opinion on environmental issues shape citizens' opinions? Out and open access with @mbarnfield.bsky.social, @florianstoeckel.bsky.social, @benlyons.bsky.social, @vittoriomerola.bsky.social, and @jasonreifler.bsky.social + others! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨

We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait

The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...

Dubious News and the Aging American: Understanding Discernment and Engagement Among Older Adults - The Shorenstein Center

happening this afternoon if you are so inclined: shorensteincenter.org/event/dubiou...

Curation Bubbles - Curation Bubbles By Jon Green, Duke University; Stefan Mccabe, George Washington University; Sarah Shugars, Rutgers University; Hanyu Chwe, Northeastern University; Luke Horgan, Northeastern…

Read the latest #APSR article, Curation Bubbles, exploring how information on social media is characterized by networked curation processes in which users select other users from whom to receive information.

Our paper on how cross-cutting group memberships predict warmer out-party affect and analyses suggesting this is why Latinos in the US have warmer feelings toward the out-party is now fully published in the most recent @polbehavior.bsky.social issue.

link.springer.com/article/10.1...

"Our certainty-weighted extension to the expectancy-value model clarifies why certain misbeliefs remain deeply influential, and how knowing more can move —but also polariz— public opinion."

The last few times I taught it, I've sort of been pushing them about similar points, so I think they will be amenable. It will be good to have something formalized.

"A Simple Future for Media Effects Research" by @tobiasdienlin.com @yesuncomm.bsky.social & @lennertcoenen.bsky.social ... will probably be assigning in media effects seminar next time I teach it osf.io/preprints/os...

Divergent patterns of engagement with partisan and low-quality news across seven social media platforms | PNAS In recent years, social media has become increasingly fragmented, as platforms evolve and new alternatives emerge. Yet most research studies a sing...

"While high-quality content is posted more and receives more total engagement across platforms...a given author attracts higher levels of engagement when they post lower-quality content"

"pattern we find seems to be driven more by an underperformance of particularly popular high-quality outlets"

cultural over economic coverage on cable news mobilizes viewers who would otherwise watch entertainment programming, so cable news emphasizes cultural politics much more than politicians trying to maximize vote share
www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/27v4x...

November 4 | Dubious News and the Aging American: Understanding Discernment

Why do older adults engage more with #misinformation online, even when they often identify falsehoods correctly in surveys?

In our next #FallSeminarSeries talk, @benlyons.bsky.social of the University of Utah will investigate that paradox.

RSVP to join us in person or online on Tuesday, Nov. 4!

Recruitment was tricky, but we got ~200 people in our pre-post experiment

In the simple (and not causally identified) one group pre-post design, the intensive intervention seemed to reduce toxic polarization

This preprint reports on a project with @j-rock.bsky.social.

We merged a light touch intervention (typical of survey experiments) w/ an intensive intervention (more typical of practitioner efforts) for reducing toxic polarization to see if we could cheaply boost 🚀 the more intensive intervention

Affective polarization and habits of political participation Affective polarization, or relative dislike of opposing partisans, is associated with several negative outcomes for democracy. However, a number of st…

@electoralstudies.bsky.social If you’re interested in academic studies of political polarisation we have loads of great papers at Electoral Studies. Check out this one by Joseph Phillips www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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!

The 2024 @electionstudies.bsky.social has the share of "pure independents" in the US at its lowest level since 1952 (7%)

our new Element on social corrections is now published and currently open access

The Simulacra (PK Dick, 1964)

We already know that lagged effects in CLPMs are likely to be upwardly biased, but just how easy is it to find significant effects? Way too easy. I tested CLPMS in 100 randomly selected pairs of correlated variables and found significant effects in 98 of them. New preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

In our PNAS we don't necessarily find a negative relationship between affpol and antidemocratic norm support, but certainly a non-linear one (appendix fig. below).

Personally, I think FT measures have some pretty major empirical oddities we're still evaluating

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Now live: “Do language models favor their home countries? Asymmetric propagation of positive misinformation and foreign interference audits” by Ho-Chun Herbert Chang, Tracy Weener, Yung-Chun Chen, Sean Noh, Mingyue Zha, Hsuan Lo misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/do-l...

lol thanks for the tag