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We produce research and public resources on democratic attitudes and political behavior. Founded and directed by Sean Westwood (Dartmouth) and Yphtach Lelkes (Penn). www.polarizationresearchlab.org and americaspoliticalpulse.com

Polarization Research Lab

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Join us in celebrating the 2025 Cozzarelli Prize Class V: Behavioral and Social Sciences winning paper, “The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research.” Read the article here: https://ow.ly/GL4K50YKy7E

Many have asked for the LLM Survey paper. The release was bungled a bit by PNAS, but it is live now: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

[email protected]’s most recent quarterly National Speech Index, conducted by the @prl.bsky.social at #Dartmouth, finds that a record number of Americans now believe that freedom of speech in the country is headed in the wrong direction.

"We should be certainly very worried about political violence and its destabilizing effect, but the country has seen far worse and survived,” @seanjwestwood.bsky.social, government professor and director of the @prl.bsky.social, says in the @nytimes.com.

🚨 3-Year Postdoc in Political Science at Aarhus University 🚨 I’m seeking to recruit a postdoc for my @erc.europa.eu research project 𝑬𝑸𝑼𝑰𝑳𝑰𝑩𝑹𝑰𝑼𝑴 on state-citizen interactions. Link and more information in second post. Position Start: Fall 2026 Application Deadline: ‼️ February 5, 2026, 23:59 CET ‼️

MPSA papers submitted! I will be presenting work with @hmridge.bsky.social on the conditional effect of ascriptive identities on tolerance for democratic transgressions next Saturday. We are very grateful to the @prl.bsky.social for including our experiments in their survey in Germany and Israel!

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One of the most-viewed PNAS articles in the last week is “The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research.” Explore the article here: https://ow.ly/CWvM50XzuBk For more trending articles, visit https://ow.ly/5q7x50XzuBi.

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The advancement of large language models poses a severe, potentially existential threat to online survey research, a fundamental tool for data coll...

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A new FIRE poll finds that a record number of Americans now believe that freedom of speech in the country is headed in the wrong direction.

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The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research | PNAS

NEW HIGH: 3/4 of Americans say free speech is headed in the wrong direction

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Is the U.S. in a Politically Violent Age? What the Data and History Say