Join Our Team! 🚨 We’re hiring 2 Postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University. We’re looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies. Feel free to share!👇🏾 bss.au.dk/en/about-aarhu…

Happy to see our work out soon! Michael Bang Petersen summarizes key findings below 👇

NEW ISSUE from JEPS - Journal of Experimental Political Science - Volume 11 - Issue 3 - Winter 2024 - cup.org/4exKWTz With papers by Sandra Morgenstern, Jesper Rasmussen, Lasse Lindekilde, Michael Bang Petersen, @mgoldenprof, Saad Gulzar سعد گلزار, @aslett_kevin, Jonathan Nagler & more

🚨Investing in citizens' competences through actionable communication from health authorities (Sundhedsstyrelsen) can decrease misinformation sharing during a pandemic. Paper: bit.ly/3UuKZJb Coauthored with Lasse Lindekilde & Michael Bang Petersen in JEPS

Meta’s new content moderation policy might align with public opinion more than you'd think 📢 *Who* hate targets has limited effects on support for hate speech laws. Ppl simply just want to restrict “high-severity violations" no matter who’s targeted (osf.io/j4nuc)

Jeg er en af talerne på denne konference i Folketinget 18. feb om Politikernes arbejdsvilkår arrangeret af Helene Helboe & Folketinget sammen med gode kolleger Jesper Rasmussen & politikerne Søren Gade Stinus Lindgreen etc. Tilmelding via linket ⤵️ ft.dk/da/aktuelt/nyh…

I am excited to announce that we are launching a new CENTER FOR CONFLICT & COOPERATION at NYU (New York University) with Dr. Anni Sternisko See our vision and research team here: centerconflictcooperation.com Please spread the word or reach out!

Past work has found that negativity and identity language both predict online engagement. In this working paper, we find that engagement is highest when negativity and identity language are combined -- especially if an *out-group* identity term is used.

Research by Jesper Rasmussen et al suggests headlines featuring both negative *and* identity language increase the clickrate by twice the amount that each feature on its own produces: buff.ly/J1U1hY1 HT coauthor Jay Van Bavel, PhD

In a new paper we analyzed 43,932 randomized news headlines and found causal evidence in support of the out-group animosity hypothesis: Negativity about out-groups boosted engagement by 14.1%, compared to just 1.6% for negativity about in-groups. osf.io/preprints/psya… Our

I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation. We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Apply in link below...