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View article: Affective connotations according to LLMs: implications for meaning measurement and cultural bias
Affective connotations according to LLMs: implications for meaning measurement and cultural bias Open
The affective connotations of words are central to meaning and important predictors of many social processes. As such, understanding the degree to which commercially-available generative language models (LLMs) replicate human judgements of…
View article: Occupational Prestige of Law Enforcement Officers: Quantifying Self and Public Perceptions of Prestige
Occupational Prestige of Law Enforcement Officers: Quantifying Self and Public Perceptions of Prestige Open
Objective Perceptions of occupational prestige are commonly associated with job satisfaction and job turnover intentions, but little is known about how law enforcement officers (LEOs) view the prestige of policing. We quantify how LEOs rat…
View article: Perceived gender and political persuasion: a social media field experiment during the 2020 US Democratic presidential primary election
Perceived gender and political persuasion: a social media field experiment during the 2020 US Democratic presidential primary election Open
Women have less influence than men in a variety of settings. Does this result from stereotypes that depict women as less capable, or biased interpretations of gender differences in behavior? We present a field experiment that—unbeknownst t…
View article: Replication Data for: Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform
Replication Data for: Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform Open
Data and code for reproducing the main results from "Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform."
View article: Perceived Gender and Political Persuasion: A Social Media Field Experiment during the 2020 Democratic National Primary
Perceived Gender and Political Persuasion: A Social Media Field Experiment during the 2020 Democratic National Primary Open
Women have less influence than men in a variety of settings for at least two reasons. First, pervasive gender stereotypes that depict women as less authoritative often cause women to be treated differently by others. Second, research indic…
View article: Anonymous Cross-Party Conversations Can Decrease Political Polarization: A Field Experiment on a Mobile Chat Platform
Anonymous Cross-Party Conversations Can Decrease Political Polarization: A Field Experiment on a Mobile Chat Platform Open
There is widespread concern that social media is driving political polarization. However, there is also increasing evidence that conversation between people with opposing political views— which social media can enable—may decrease animus b…
View article: Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency’s impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017
Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency’s impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017 Open
There is widespread concern that Russia and other countries have launched social-media campaigns designed to increase political divisions in the United States. Though a growing number of studies analyze the strategy of such campaigns, it i…
View article: MOESM2 of Fast approximate STEM image simulations from a machine learning model
MOESM2 of Fast approximate STEM image simulations from a machine learning model Open
Additional file 2. Training data, code, and additional results.