Perceptions about others play an important role in shaping people's attitudes and behaviors,
as well as social norms more broadly. This review presents a meta-analysis of the recent …

I study the persuasive effects of slanted language, exploiting a ban on the politically charged
term “illegal immigrant” by the Associated Press (AP) news wire. My empirical strategy …

Dissent plays an important role in any society, but dissenters are often silenced through
social sanctions. Beyond their persuasive effects, rationales providing arguments supporting …

Individuals, like researchers, often have to form beliefs about the political world from
nonrepresentative samples; eg, their friends, what they see on TV, or content on social …

This paper develops a theory of social norms of beliefs and opinions, which provides an
account of political correctness and the backlash against it. Social norms about opinion …

One-way communication between an informed sender and an uninformed receiver involves
two fundamental processes: a process of encoding–whereby the sender maps states of the …

Does social recognition motivate prosocial individuals? We run large-scale experiments
among members of Italy's main blood donors association, testing social recognition both …

Recent research has studied heterogeneity in universalism vs. in-group favoritism to explain
various economic and political behaviors. This paper documents that displayed universalism …

The extensive economics literature on lying has focused nearly exclusively on studying
experimental settings where individuals can lie for financial rewards. However, in everyday …

We study whether tweets about racial justice predict the offline behaviors of nearly 20,000
US academics. In an audit study, academics that tweet about racial justice discriminate more …