Donny Snyder

Political Science PhD student @umasspolisci | @NSF GRFP Fellow | Researching interventions to reduce partisan animosity

[Dan Mirea @DanMirea4]

Do you want to use GPT for text analysis in R?

@steverathje2 and I filmed a 15-min tutorial on using the GPT API to perform text analysis tasks (e.g. sentiment analysis or emotion detection) in R.

https://t.co/ZzC14uI8wB

[Donny Snyder @DonaldESnyder3]

It still feels incredibly surreal, but I was awarded the NSF GRFP!! I am so very grateful to everyone who has helped me along the way!

[Ben Tappin @Ben_Tappin]

The study 1 results suggest a sizable persuasive advantage to political microtargeting. The precision-weighted ATE under microtargeting was approx. 70% larger than single-best-message (5.96 vs. 3.48, p = 0.004) and over 200% larger than naive (5.96 vs. 1.79, p < 0.001).

[Alex Theodoridis @AGTheodoridis]

Dueling waves? Our @UMassPoll results suggest that Democrats are very excited to vote ... but Republicans are even more excited.

[Donny Snyder @DonaldESnyder3]

Rewatching The Office and out of nowhere it perfectly sums up what a lot of common ingroup identity interventions feel like to me

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Media has become increasingly negative since 2000, with more and more headlines expressing fear, anger, sadness, and disgust. Neutral headlines are getting rarer. https://t.co/nPp0HHnzUV

[Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel]

A megastudy on a national sample of partisans (n=32,059) tested 25 interventions designed to reduce anti-democratic attitudes & partisan animosity.

The top 3 were:
-intergroup contact
-addressing mistrust in the media
-creating a common ingroup identity
https://t.co/YYZ6V579nr

[Donny Snyder @DonaldESnyder3]

@caitlyn__pierce The only shortcoming of ethnography is reproducibility. Hopefully someone else can further elucidate these findings through their own “work”

[Follow @ClaraPretus on Bluesky @ClaraPretus]

🚨New preprint🚨

Are identity-based interventions effective in reducing the spread of partisan misinformation?

We find they are more effective than other popular interventions 🧵👇

Via @alijaveed_ @DianaRHughes1 @KobiHackenburg @manos_tsakiris @OVilarroya @jayvanbavel

[Donny Snyder @DonaldESnyder3]

Thanks to everyone who attended my first in-person panel presentation ever this morning at #ISPP2022. I was very nervous but it turned out to be a great learning experience! Always eager for the opportunity to explain Construal Level Theory to other political scientists

[Journal of Politics @[email protected] @The_JOP]

It is time for a bit of courage and innovation:
The JOP will start accepting Registered Reports as a new article format in January 2023.
Publication decisions for RR will be based on the merits of the research question and design, irrespective of the empirical results. 1/11
🧵⬇️

[New Pluralists @newpluralists]

Check out this must-read report from @Beyond_Conflict examining the psychological drivers of division and democratic decline in the US.

Find out what's contributing to our growing divide and how we can come together to solve our shared challenges here: https://t.co/zVKXwjoWqZ

[Donny Snyder @DonaldESnyder3]

@profmusgrave all better!

[Alex Theodoridis @AGTheodoridis]

🧵 Our latest @UMassPoll examines the landscape heading into the 2022 Midterms. Is it the economy, stupid? Plus a doozy of a result on whether a GOP House should impeach Biden.
@TatisheNteta @JesseHRhodes @raylaraja @umasspolsci @UMassAmherst @SBS_UMass
https://t.co/tt58fAQiXk

[Alex Theodoridis @AGTheodoridis]

A stunning 68% of Republicans say the House should impeach Joe Biden if the GOP wins the majority...

[Alex Theodoridis @AGTheodoridis]

🧵Our latest @UMassPoll offers one of the first post-Dobbs-leak snapshots of a nation processing a post-Roe future, and insight on the relative lack of victory laps by GOP elites.
@TatisheNteta @JesseHRhodes @RayLaRaja @umasspolsci @UMassAmherst @SBS_UMass
https://t.co/CG03SEOAHM

[Donny Snyder @DonaldESnyder3]

@NathanKalmoe There is a video of a russian POW talking about how once they crossed the border, if they go back, it’s a 15-25 year jail sentence, plus insubordination (second half of this video, and not sure if reliable source) https://t.co/V9dbNkTIKZ

[Association for Psychological Science @PsychScience]

Narrative interventions using storytelling may provide impactful solutions for shifting behavioral intentions, beliefs, and attitudes. @RezBilali https://t.co/tnBVTWXLEE

[Alex Theodoridis @AGTheodoridis]

Only if that person VERY recently took the LSAT. If it were up to me, the nomination would go to someone fresh off an impressive middle school mock trial performance.

[Adam Eichen @AdamEichen]

🚨NEW POLL from @DataProgress @LetsUnpac @EqualCitizensUS: Not only do American voters support the Freedom to Vote John Lewis Act, they also support the Democrats’ plan to alter the Senate rules to allow it to pass with a simple majority vote. https://t.co/ubh63iY4LT