In recent years, there has been a great deal of concern about the proliferation of false and
misleading news on social media,,–. Academics and practitioners alike have asked why …

Political scientists are increasingly conducting field experiments that raise ethical issues that
standard review criteria and processes are ill equipped to address. Field experiments can …

The diversity of political spaces, availability of cheap labor, ease of access to powerful
figures, and safety net of a foreign passport attract researchers to the developing world …

N= 2775) and an experiment on Twitter in which we messaged N= 5,482 users who had
previously shared news from misleading websites, we find that subtly inducing people to …

Recently, social science has had numerous episodes of influential research that was found
invalid when placed under rigorous scrutiny. The growing sense that many published results …

Political scientists designing experiments often face the question of how abstract or detailed
their experimental stimuli should be. Typically, this question is framed in terms of trade‐offs …

Political scientists use diverse methods to study important topics. The findings they reach
and conclusions they draw can have significant social implications and are sometimes …

Online behavioral data, such as digital traces from social media, have the potential to allow
researchers an unprecedented new window into human behavior in ecologically valid …

Ethics standards reference the need for special consideration of vulnerable populations,
such as pregnant women, incarcerated individuals, and minors. The concept of vulnerability …

Can fieldwork still be done in today's most violent warzones? We contend that long-held
methodological principles about power and impartiality do not hold in today's conflict-ridden …