This Element explores misinformation as a challenge for democracies, using experiments from Germany, Italy, and the UK to assess the role of user-generated corrections on social media. The conclusion highlights that social corrections can mislead bu...Lasīt vairāk
Florian Stöckel, Sabrina Stöckli, Benjamin A. Lyons, Hannah Kroker, Jason Reifler
Sērija : Elements in Experimental Political Science
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009677172)
This Element explores misinformation as a challenge for democracies, using experiments from Germany, Italy, and the UK to assess the role of user-generated corrections on social media. The conclusion highlights that social corrections can mislead bu...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Elements in Experimental Political Science
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Jun-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009546935)
Critics of populism and advocates of elitist democracy often place greater confidence in political elites than in the general public. However, this trust may be misplaced. In five experiments with local politicians, state legislators, and members of...Lasīt vairāk
Critics of populism and advocates of elitist democracy often place greater confidence in political elites than in the general public. However, this trust may be misplaced. In five experiments with local politicians, state legislators, and members of...Lasīt vairāk
This Element aims to better understand the role of the internet in the radicalization process, focusing on how online factors contribute to self-radicalization. Specifically, it examines the neurocognitive process of online radicalization by analyzin...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Elements in Experimental Political Science
(Izdošanas datums: 24-Apr-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009586214)
This Element explores the role of the internet in the radicalization process, focusing on how online factors contribute to self-radicalization. It analyzes the neurocognitive impact of terrorist propaganda videos on individuals cognitive empathy usi...Lasīt vairāk
This phenomenon of retrospective voting requires that individuals integrate and appraise streams of performance information over time. Yet past experimental studies short-circuit this integration-appraisal process. This Element, develops a new fram...Lasīt vairāk
Causal inference and machine learning are typically introduced in the social sciences separately as theoretically distinct methodological traditions. However, applications of machine learning in causal inference are increasingly prevalent. This Elem...Lasīt vairāk
Does interpersonal political communication improve the quality of individual decision making? While deliberative theorists offer reasons for hope, experimental researchers have demonstrated that biased messages can travel via interpersonal social net...Lasīt vairāk
This Element explores how political scientists designing experiments address how abstract their experimental stimuli should be. First, Brutger et al. provide a theoretical framework which identifies and considers the consequences of abstraction. Sec...Lasīt vairāk
How can researchers obtain reliable responses on sensitive issues in dangerous settings? This Element elucidates ways for researchers to use unobtrusive experimental methods to elicit answers to risky, taboo, and threatening questions in dangerous so...Lasīt vairāk
Americans today are affectively polarized: they dislike and distrust those from the opposing political party more than they did in the past, with damaging consequences for their democracy. This Element examines this affective polarization present in...Lasīt vairāk
Harmonious relationships between groups are vital for democracy, and intergroup contact presents an appealing way to encourage this. However, what kinds of contact work best? Ethan Busby reviews studies of contact, proposes a method for studying the...Lasīt vairāk
