Misinformation, fake news and source credibility

"Truth and Bias: Left and Right. Testing ideological asymmetries with a realistic news supply", Public Opinion Quarterly, 2023
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"When Do Sources Persuade? The Effect of Source Credibility on Opinion Change", with Andy M. Guess (Princeton University), Journal of Experimental Political Science, 2022
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"Horseshoe Patterns: Visualizing Partisan Media Trust in Germany", with Paul C. Bauer (MZES University of Mannheim), Socius, 2021
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"Believing and Sharing Information by Fake Sources: An Experiment", with Paul C. Bauer (MZES University of Mannheim), Political Communication, 2021
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"Truth and Bias: Robust findings?", 2020
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"An Ocean of Possible Truth: Biased Processing of News on Social Media", 2018
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"School Debating and Misinformation Detection: A Randomized Control Trial in Poland" with Krzys Krakowski (Collegio Carlo Alberto) and Davide Morisi (Collegio Carlo Alberto), review & resubmit at Journal of Politics
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Media effects and exposure

"Non-news websites expose people to more political content than news websites: Evidence from browsing data in three countries", with Magdalena Wojcieszak (UC Davis), Ericka Menchen-Trevino (American University), Sjifra de Leeuw (University of Amsterdam), João Gonçalves (University of Rotterdam), Sam Davidson (UC Davis), Alexandre Gonçalves (Columbia University), Political Communication, 2023
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"Null effects of news exposure: a test of the (un)desirable effects of a 'news vacation' and 'news binging'", with Magdalena Wojcieszak (UC Davis), Andreu Casas (VU Amsterdam), Ericka Menchen-Trevino (American University), Sjifra de Leeuw, Alexandre Gonçalves (UC Davis) and Miriam Boon (University of Regina), Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2022
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"The (Null) Over-time Effects of Exposure to Local News Websites: Evidence from Trace Data", with Jane Cronin (American University), João Gonçalves (University of Rotterdam), Magdalena Wojcieszak (UC Davis), Ericka Menchen-Trevino (American University), Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 2022
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"Micro Influence and Macro Dynamics of Opinion Formation", with Michael Mäs (University of Groningen) and Bary Pradelski (CNRS/Grenoble), 2017
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"The Cure Worse Than the Disease? How the Media's Attention to Misinformation Decreases Trust" with Emma Hoes (University of Zürich), Theresa Gessler (European University Viadrina), Sijia Qian (UC Davis), Magdalena Wojcieszak (UC Davis), review & resubmit at International Journal of Press/Politics
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"Causes of perceived polarization: An over-time analysis of the effects of media coverage of polarization in three countries" with Magdalena Wojcieszak (UC Davis) and Ericka Menchen-Trevino (American University), review & resubmit at Political Communication
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"Incentivizing news consumption with bots on Twitter", with Hadi Askari (UC Davis), Michael Heseltine (University of Amsterdam), Magdalena Wojcieszak (UC Davis), Ericka Menchen-Trevino (American University), Zubair Shafiq (UC Davis) and Anshuman Chabra (UC Davis). Work in progress.

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Environmental change and politics

"Wolf attacks predict far-right voting", with Anselm Hager (HU Berlin), PNAS, 2022
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"The effect of legal hunting on livestock depredation", with Neil Carter (Michigan State University), Leandra Merz (Michigan State University) & Jeremy Bruskotter (Ohio State University). Work in progress.

"Do wolf attacks affect electoral behavior? Evidence from the U.S.", with Neil Carter (Michigan State University), Leandra Merz (Michigan State University). Work in progress.

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Negativity in political campaigning

"Why Do Candidates 'Go Negative'? Unpacking the Mechanisms of Negative Campaigning" with Sebastian Stier (GESIS), Corinna Oschatz (University of Amsterdam), Alessandro Nai (University of Amsterdam), Jürgen Maier (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau) and Nora Kirkizh (TU Munich). Work in progress.
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"Predictors of Negative Campaigning at the local and national level" with Sebastian Stier (GESIS), Corinna Oschatz (University of Amsterdam), Jürgen Maier (RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau). Work in progress.

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Methodology

"Google News API" in Paul C. Bauer and Camille Landesvater (2022): "APIs for social scientists: A collaborative review"
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"Statistical analysis of trace data: a guide", with Sebastian Stier (GESIS), Ana S. Cardenal (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Andy Guess (Princeton), Magdalena Wojcieszak (UC Davis) & Ericka Menchen-Trevino (American University). Social Science Computer Review, 2024.
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"Large Language Models as a Substitute for Human Experts in Annotating Political Text" with Michael Heseltine (University of Amsterdam). Under Review at Research and Politics.
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"Measuring news exposure with self-reports and traces: bias on both sides?", with Chankyung Pak (Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University), Ericka Menchen-Trevino (American University) & Magdalena Wojcieszak (UC Davis). Work in progress.

"Stimulus validity": Building on the working paper "Truth and Bias: Robust findings?" posted below, I argue that researchers in political science often design their studies around stimuli that are supposed to represent a larger universe of information, yet they rarely justify their selection of stimuli. Work in progress.

"Media Ideology in Multiparty Systems: Validated Scores for 16 European Countries" with Michael Heseltine (University of Amsterdam). Estimating media ideology with social media sharing patterns has so far been restricted to the US. We add to literature with data from Europe. Work in progress.

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