Scholarly efforts to understand conspiracy theories have grown significantly in recent years,
and there is now a broad and interdisciplinary literature. In reviewing this body of work, we …

Despite a scientific consensus, citizens are divided when it comes to climate change—often
along political lines. Democrats or liberals tend to believe that human activity is a primary …

We propose and explore the possibility that language models can be studied as effective
proxies for specific human subpopulations in social science research. Practical and …

Political violence is rising in the United States, with Republicans and Democrats divided
along racial and ethnic lines that spurred massive bloodshed and democratic collapse …

There has been growing concern about the role social media plays in political polarization.
We investigated whether out-group animosity was particularly successful at generating …

Objective To study the US public's health behaviors, attitudes, and policy opinions about
COVID-19 in the earliest weeks of the national health crisis (March 20–23, 2020). Method …

Affective polarization captures the extent to which citizens feel sympathy towards partisan in-
groups and antagonism towards partisan out-groups. This is comparatively easy to assess in …

So-called “fake news” has renewed concerns about the prevalence and effects of
misinformation in political campaigns. Given the potential for widespread dissemination of …

Not long ago, the rise of social media inspired great optimism about its potential for flattening
access to economic and political opportunity, enabling collective action, and facilitating new …

Challenger parties are on the rise in Europe, exemplified by the likes of Podemos in Spain,
the National Rally in France, the Alternative for Germany, or the Brexit Party in Great Britain …