I’m very excited to share that my paper “Cleavage theory meets civil society: A framework and research agenda” with @eborbath.bsky.social & Swen Hutter has now been published online in @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/ open access funding thanks to @wzb.bsky.social!)
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Alex Mierke-Zatwarnicki
I mean, we are living in two different realities now, and this really hasn't always been the case.
New preprint 🚨
Cognitive bottlenecks make LLMs more morally aligned with people 🧠🤖
We made AI “think” more like people by narrowing its focus to a few key moral cues.
This AI better predicted people’s moral judgments & was more trusted.
🧵 ⬇️
The CHES EU team has published a new research note in @electoralstudies.bsky.social describing some trends across the 25 years now covered by our trend file and exploring two new items included in the 2024 wave of the survey: doi.org/10.1016/j.el...
Here’s a summary thread:
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John Pfaff
Interested in why moral conflict is so common on social media?
Join us at #SPSP 2026 for our symposium. We’ll present new findings on how platforms shape digital discourse and explore pathways toward healthier online environments
🗓 Saturday, the 28th | 9:30–10:40 AM
📍 Room E270, Level 2
Depolarization is not "a scalable solution for reducing societal-level conflict.... achieving lasting depolarization will likely require....moving beyond individual-level treatments to address the elite behaviors and structural incentives that fuel partisan conflict" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
