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View article: Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media
Counterspeech encouraging users to adopt the perspective of minority groups reduces hate speech and its amplification on social media Open
Online intergroup hostility is a pervasive and troubling issue, yet experimental evidence on how to curb it remains scarce. This study examines counterspeech as a user-driven strategy to reduce hate speech. Drawing on theories that suggest…
View article: Collective Memories of Violence and Political Attitudes: Evidence from a World War II Frontline
Collective Memories of Violence and Political Attitudes: Evidence from a World War II Frontline Open
The politicized nature of violence in armed conflicts can favor the persistence of group divisions into peacetime. Yet, many local violence dynamics may not correspond to the conflict cleavages, leaving the experiences of affected communit…
View article: Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States
Intertemporal evidence on the strategy of populism in the United States Open
View article: Collective Memories of Violence and Political Attitudes: Evidence from a World War II Frontline
Collective Memories of Violence and Political Attitudes: Evidence from a World War II Frontline Open
The politicized nature of violence in armed conflicts can favor the persistence of group divisions into peacetime. Yet, many local violence dynamics may not correspond to the conflict cleavages, leaving the experiences of affected communit…
View article: Collective Memories of Violence and Political Attitudes: Evidence from a World War II Frontline
Collective Memories of Violence and Political Attitudes: Evidence from a World War II Frontline Open
Violence can shape political behavior across generations, but the social mechanisms underlying this process are only partially understood. We propose that collective memories permit the inter-generational transfer of attitudes induced by v…
View article: War violence, nationalism, and party support: Evidence from Italy
War violence, nationalism, and party support: Evidence from Italy Open
Under what conditions can legacies of past violence shape political behaviour? We propose a theory of how war victimization defines attitudes over the long run, and how these can be activated by changes in the political environment. We arg…
View article: Emotion and Reason in Political Language
Emotion and Reason in Political Language Open
This paper studies the use of emotion and reason in political discourse. Adopting computational-linguistics techniques to construct a validated text-based scale, we measure emotionality in six million speeches given in U.S. Congress over t…
View article: Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment
Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment Open
Despite heightened awareness of the detrimental impact of hate speech on social media platforms on affected communities and public discourse, there is little consensus on approaches to mitigate it. While content moderation—either by govern…
View article: Replication Materials for: Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment
Replication Materials for: Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment Open
Replication Materials for: Empathy-based counterspeech can reduce racist hate speech in a social media field experiment. PNAS, 2021.
View article: Emotion and Reason in Political Language
Emotion and Reason in Political Language Open
View article: Mobilization and the Strategy of Populism Theory and Evidence from the United States
Mobilization and the Strategy of Populism Theory and Evidence from the United States Open
We propose a theory of strategic adoption of populism in electoral campaigns, in which a populist campaign attracts disillusioned voters but demobilizes core partisans. Under these conditions, populism is more tempting for outsider candida…
View article: Collective Emotions and Protest Vote
Collective Emotions and Protest Vote Open
View article: Intertemporal Evidence on the Strategy of Populism
Intertemporal Evidence on the Strategy of Populism Open
Do candidates use populism to maximize the impact of political campaigns? Is the supply of populism strategic? We apply automated text analysis to all available 2016 US Presidential campaign speeches and 2018 midterm campaign programs usin…
View article: Collective Emotions and Protest Vote
Collective Emotions and Protest Vote Open