Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

Considerable scholarly attention has been paid to understanding belief in online
misinformation,, with a particular focus on social networks. However, the dominant role of …

Much concern has been raised about the power of political microtargeting to sway voters'
opinions, influence elections, and undermine democracy. Yet little research has directly …

Democracy requires collective action—but not all forms of collective action are the same.
Scholars need a more coherent intellectual infrastructure to differentiate distinct forms of …

The development and popularization of large language models (LLMs) have raised
concerns that they will be used to create tailor-made, convincing arguments to push false or …

It is widely assumed that party identification and loyalty can distort partisans' information
processing, diminishing their receptivity to counter-partisan arguments and evidence. Here …

Scientists have developed a strong consensus that Earth's climate is changing and that
human activities play an important role in these changes. However, current research shows …

Overcoming the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States will require most Americans to
vaccinate against the disease. However, considerable research suggests that a significant …

The emergence of transformer models that leverage deep learning and web-scale corpora
has made it possible for artificial intelligence (AI) to tackle many higher-order cognitive tasks …

Discussions around declining trust in the US media can be vague about its effects. One
classic answer comes from the persuasion literature, in which source credibility plays a key …