Persuasion is a vital part of politics—who wins elections and policy disputes often depends
on which side can persuade more people. Given this centrality, the study of persuasion has …

Taber and Lodge offer a powerful case for the prevalence of directional reasoning that aims
not at truth, but at the vindication of prior opinions. Taber and Lodge's results have far …

To what extent do survey experimental treatment effect estimates generalize to other
populations and contexts? Survey experiments conducted on convenience samples have …

Widespread misperceptions about COVID-19 and the novel coronavirus threaten to
exacerbate the severity of the pandemic. We conducted preregistered survey experiments in …

While legitimacy dynamics are paramount in global governance, they have been
insufficiently recognized, conceptualized, and explained in standard accounts of …

An intensely debated topic is whether political polarization on social media is on the rise. We
can investigate this question only if we can quantify polarization, by taking into account how …

The extent to which survey experiments conducted with nonrepresentative convenience
samples are generalizable to target populations depends critically on the degree of …

Survey experiments often manipulate the description of attributes in a hypothetical scenario,
with the goal of learning about those attributes' real-world effects. Such inferences rely on an …

" News Framing Effects is a guide to framing effects theory, one of the most prominent
theories in media and communication science. Rooted in both psychology and sociology …

We examine the trade-offs associated with using Amazon. com's Mechanical Turk (MTurk)
interface for subject recruitment. We first describe MTurk and its promise as a vehicle for …