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Does any shift of voters of color to the GOP mean that race is less important to electoral politics? That's a common argument. In fact, it's the opposite. We are less polarized by race, but MORE polarized ABOUT race. MIchael Tesler and me Good Authority: goodauthority.org/news/america-i…

Today we released the first papers from OpenResearch's Unconditional income Study, which gave 1k ppl $1k/mo for 3 yrs & had a N=2k control group This 🧵 is for RCT nerds: how did we measure the cash's fx? Learn about 96% response rates, blood draws, changing a state law & more..

Excited to see this new article out with @leahchristiani in Research & Politics! Inspired by cases like Eric Adams in NYC, we look at how tough-on-crime candidates’ identities (race + gender) impact their favorability among progressive voters. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

🚨New WP: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments?🚨 Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments? Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects 🧵👇

Kind of a big deal: GPT-4 simulates people well enough to replicate social science experiments with high accuracy Note this is done by having the AI prompted to respond to survey questions as a person given random demographic characteristics & surveying thousands of "AI people"

🚨📢 Super excited to share our new preprint 🚨(w Luke 🐝 Hewitt Isaias Ghezae & Robb Willer) Assembling a large archive of 70 experiments (476 effects) conducted in the US, we ask if LLMs can be leveraged to predict results of social science experiments. See this 🧵for more:

A new study led by Ashwini Ashokkumar, Luke 🐝 Hewitt, Isaias Ghezae & Robb Willer of our Politics and Social Change Lab evaluates whether LLMs can be leveraged to predict the results of social science experiments. Explore key takeaways👇 x.com/RobbWiller/sta…

A study finds that people both expect and receive boosts to their reputations when sharing true news on social media. So why do people share false political news? According to the authors, people likely don’t realize it is false. In PNAS Nexus: ow.ly/3nrT50SUcjA

New in PNAS Nexus: Correcting misperceptions of the out-party is often recommended as a strategy to reduce polarization, but it may not be as effective as previously thought Sean Westwood Yphtach Lelkes Nic Dias Kristian Frederiksen Lea Pradella Laurits Aarslew academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti… 🧵1/5

Interesting... Partisans neither expect nor receive reputational rewards for sharing falsehoods over truth online academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti… "Partisans neither expect nor receive reputational rewards for sharing falsehoods over truth online..." "...factors other than reputation

This 24-year-old believes they need to invest $6,000/month to have an "average" retirement That would get them $16 million at 65, which would be a safe withdrawal of over $660,000/year Some of you should really stop trusting your feelings and learn how money actually works

With the new school year, my lab (@PASCL_Stanford) is adjusting to some big departures, as many folks move on to exciting new homes. Here’s a look at this stellar crop of alums & where they’re headed now. It’s been a privilege to work with such talented scholars & good friends!

Google's #NotebookLM quickly made a "podcast" of the paper, which supports the idea that GPT-4 can perform A/B testing by mimicking human behavior in experiments. Amazing! bit.ly/3MUJTSq Ashwini Ashokkumar Robb Willer Luke 🐝 Hewitt Isaias Ghezae

🚨New preprint! 🚨 To address intergroup violence, we must understand its psychological drivers. Dehumanization is widely seen as a key driver. Yet, some argue it's just a way to express dislike. If true, dehumanization theories may misrepresent the motives behind violence. 🧵👇

10/ In so doing, they clarify our understanding of the psychology driving violence and can inform efforts to ameliorate it. Full paper here: doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

dehumanization strongly predicts support for violence over and above several measures of dislike and hostile personality traits. In fact, dehumanization was often the strongest predictor out of all variables. This suggests dehumanization is distinct from basic prejudice.

🚨Out in Nature!🚨 Many (eg Trump JimJordan Elon Musk) have accused social media of anti-conservative bias Is this accurate? We test empirically - and it's more complicated than you might think: conservatives ARE suspended more, but also share more misinfo nature.com/articles/s4158…

🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP Science Magazine (🆕tinyurl.com/sdcsci🆕), PNASNews (2x), Nature Human Behaviour (2x).

Very excited to share that the main paper from the Strengthening Democracy Challenge is out today in Science Magazine! It’s been a long road to get to get to this point. 🧵👇 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

🚨New paper🚨How do we decide who has the 'moral standing' to call out wrongdoing? New research, led by former YES Lab member Isaias Ghezae and in collaboration with Fan Yang explores folk perception of moral standing to blame. Now in Open Mind direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…