Social science researchers increasingly recruit participants through Amazon's Mechanical
Turk (MTurk) platform. Yet, the physical isolation of MTurk participants, and perceived lack of …

Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social
science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell …

Researchers have increasingly turned to online convenience samples as sources of survey
responses that are easy and inexpensive to collect. As reliance on these sources has grown …

Survey experiments are ubiquitous in social science. A frequent critique is that positive
results in these studies stem from experimenter demand effects (EDEs)—bias that occurs …

Several theoretical perspectives suggest that when individuals are exposed to counter-
attitudinal evidence or arguments, their pre-existing opinions and beliefs are reinforced …

Candidate choice survey experiments in the form of conjoint or vignette experiments have
become a standard part of the political science toolkit for understanding the effects of …

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 …

Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative
sample of the US population, we first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of …

A bold re-examination of how political attitudes change in response to information. Many
mistakenly believe that it is fruitless to try to persuade those who disagree with them about …

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 tradeoffs …