Ben Lyons

Assistant professor @UofUComm. Formerly @exeterpolitics, @APPCPenn. Tweeting research that interests me so I can find it later, maybe. #firstgen

[Ben Lyons @iBALyons]

Now out w @MerolaVittorio @JasonReifler - experts floated idea of ditching full-course advice for antibiotics. We show acceptance of hypothetical early-stoppage guidance, conditional on deference to experts, but resistance to (abstract) future changes https://t.co/hXNesIrpSA

[Ben Lyons @iBALyons]

Official website: https://t.co/YOEIwIDkLd
@Rohit_Anand__ @CFarhart @Prof_Vitriol @SprkJoy4BtrDays @SpokenbyModed @DreaToasty @DrDigiPol @CoronaWatchUK @Y0Nate @mscole18

[Ben Lyons @iBALyons]

Official website: https://t.co/YOEIwIDkLd
@Rohit_Anand__ @CFarhart @Prof_Vitriol @SprkJoy4BtrDays @SpokenbyModed @DreaToasty @DrDigiPol @CoronaWatchUK @Y0Nate @mscole18

[Professor Karen Douglas @Karen_Douglas]

We are currently conducting a meta-analysis of the psychological factors associated with belief in conspiracy theories. This is a call for unpublished data. Please help if you can, and RT too please! Thank you 😀

[Aaron Moss @Aaron_J_Moss]

New preprint from @CloudResearch_1 investigating ethical concerns of MTurk for behavioral research

TLDR In random and representative surveys of the U.S. MTurk population, we find little evidence for the ethical criticisms often made against MTurk https://t.co/T26ZKEnkZl 1/

[Ben Lyons @iBALyons]

still shocking to see the Sec of State make statements like this

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

The risk to children is NOT from homeschooling. The risk is from radical leftist scholars seeking to impose THEIR values on OUR children.
https://t.co/4Wz9avvyr5

[Tomer Ullman @TomerUllman]

Covid-study-study: I asked 200 people on Turk about the COVID19 studies they've done.

First, by their own estimation, how many COVID19 studies have they done?

(notice the logarithmic x axis)

[Justin T. Pickett @JustinTPickett]

MTurk vs. college students: here are several years of attention check responses, from about 6,000 respondents. Figure on the left shows the percentage failing attention checks in each sample and year. On the right is one of the attention checks I used.

[Ben Lyons @iBALyons]

ungated version, pre-reg, materials, data + script here: https://t.co/LbMK69naoh

[Ben Lyons @iBALyons]

Now out w @MerolaVittorio @JasonReifler - experts floated idea of ditching full-course advice for antibiotics. We show acceptance of hypothetical early-stoppage guidance, conditional on deference to experts, but resistance to (abstract) future changes https://t.co/hXNesIrpSA

[preprint.polpsy @PreprintPolPsy]

new.polpsy.preprint: Partisanship, Humility, and Polarization https://t.co/oxtb7ylweQ

[dietram a. scheufele @scheufele]

"@Facebook ads [are] targeting people that the company believes are interested in “pseudoscience” ... the pseudoscience interest category contained more than 78 million people." Well, I enjoyed enlightenment while it lasted. https://t.co/xEw0copmN2 #scicomm

[Ben Lyons @iBALyons]

for those interested, here's the inspiration point: "The antibiotic course has had its day' (@bmj_latest) https://t.co/R3wnCIOzOb

[Matt Grossmann @MattGrossmann]

exposure to diverse news is on the rise & ideological self-selection is far from the main driver of exposure to digital news. But more than half of the US online population consumes no online news
#SocSciResearch
https://t.co/JJHP9J2SFM

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Important data here from @jhaushofer & collaborators, comparing actual attitudes with (mis-)perceptions about attitudes:

Should we stop social gatherings?
97% say yes
but they think only 67% believe this.

Should we close stores?
77% say yes
but think only 63% believe this.

[TurkerView @TurkerView]

@MarkHoffarth For even more context since Feb, ~600/37,000 likely academic studies (600/332,000 total unique tasks) had "COVID" in the title.

Since April 1st, 451 posted tasks out of a pool of ~9,600 studies (82,300 total unique tasks) did.

[Ben Lyons @iBALyons]

@asveenstra yes they were the ones protesting in Michigan

[Joseph A. Vitriol @Prof_Vitriol]

Persuasion is hard in politics. What happens when you fail to change someone's mind?

New paper from myself, @howard_lavine, Gene Borgida examines how and when resistance to persuasive messages can lead to increased attitude certainty and polarization.

https://t.co/Jtb7i5hsyO

[Ben Lyons @iBALyons]

@BrendanNyhan @JasonReifler @thosjleeper @emilythorson @andyguess various demos of quotes from gaskins et al

[Ben Lyons @iBALyons]

@BrendanNyhan @JasonReifler @thosjleeper @emilythorson @andyguess don't know about voter file. I'd check out https://t.co/YfH5o9imd0 .. I also rember this going around: https://t.co/hovx4hMtB1