Does the internet facilitate selective exposure to politically congenial content? To answer
this question, I introduce and validate large‐N behavioral data on Americans' online media …

Conjoint analysis is a common tool for studying political preferences. The method
disentangles patterns in respondents' favorability toward complex, multidimensional objects …

Why do Americans have such animosity for people who identify with the opposing political
party? Jaime E. Settle argues that in the context of increasing partisan polarization among …

This exploratory study seeks to understand the diffusion of disinformation by examining how
social media users respond to fake news and why. Using a mixed-methods approach in an …

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 …

Has the introduction of social media into the information landscape changed the heuristics
individuals use when selecting news? Social media allow users to easily share and endorse …

How can we elicit honest responses in surveys? Conjoint analysis has become a popular
tool to address social desirability bias (SDB), or systematic survey misreporting on sensitive …

Political scientists frequently interpret the results of conjoint experiments as reflective of
majority preferences. In this article, we show that the target estimand of conjoint …

News recommender systems provide a technological architecture that helps shaping public
discourse. Following a normative approach to news recommender system design, we test …

Providing an in-depth analysis of public opinion, including its origins in political
socialization, its role in the electoral process, and the impact of the media, American Public …