SSRN Political Behavior: Cognition, Psychology, & Behavior eJournal

1.

How Fox News Changed American Media and Political Dynamics

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 11 May 2015 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2015

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Bruce Bartlett

Independent

Downloads 38,241

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Introductory Reading for the 'Being a Leader and The Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological/Phenomenological Model' Course

Harvard Business School Negotiations, Organizations and Markets Unit Research Paper Series No. 10-091, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 08-01, Simon School Working Paper No. 08-02, Gruter Institute Squaw Valley Conference 2009: Law, Behavior & the Brain

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 30 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2017

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Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Jeri Echeverria

Independent, SSRN, Landmark Worldwide LLC and California State University Office of the Chancellor

Downloads 25,067

3.

Motivated Numeracy and Enlightened Self-Government

Behavioural Public Policy, 1, 54-86, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 307

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 08 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2017

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Dan M. Kahan, Ellen Peters, Erica Cantrell Dawson and Paul Slovic

Yale University - Law School, Ohio State University - Psychology Department, Cornell University and Decision Research

Downloads 17,960

4.

Choice Architecture

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 02 Apr 2010

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Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein and John P. Balz

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, Harvard Law School and University of Chicago - Political Science Department

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 15,574

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Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality -- Abridged (English Language Version)

Harvard Business School NOM Unit Working Paper No. 10-061, Barbados Group Working Paper No. 10-01, Simon School Working Paper No. 10-07

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2016

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Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen and Steve Zaffron

Independent, SSRN and Landmark Worldwide LLC

There are 4 versions of this paper

Downloads 14,801

6.

Psychic Numbing and Mass Atrocity

In E. Shafir (Ed.), The behavioral foundations of public policy (pp. 126–142). NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013., NYU School of Law, Public Law Research Paper No. 11-56,

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 17 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 13 May 2017

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Paul Slovic, David Zionts, Andrew Keane Woods, Ryan Goodman and Derek Jinks

Decision Research, Harvard Law School, University of Kentucky - College of Law, New York University School of Law and University of Texas School of Law

Downloads 10,915

7.

The Skin In The Game Heuristic for Protection Against Tail Events

Review of Behavioral Economics, 2014, 1: 1–21, NYU Tandon Research Paper No. 2298292,

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2017

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Constantine Sandis

NYU-Tandon School of Engineering and Oxford Brookes University

Downloads 9,723

8.

Cultural Cognition as a Conception of the Cultural Theory of Risk

HANDBOOK OF RISK THEORY, S. Roeser, ed., Forthcoming, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-20, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 222

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 23 Apr 2008 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 7,280

9.

False Memories of Fabricated Political Events

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, Vol. 49, 2013, UC Irvine School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-87

Number of pages: 8 Posted: 17 Jan 2013

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Steven J. Frenda, Eric D. Knowles, William Saletan and Elizabeth F. Loftus

University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychology and Social Behavior, The Slate Group and University of California, Irvine - Department of Psychology and Social Behavior

Downloads 6,585

10.

Moral Foundations Theory: The Pragmatic Validity of Moral Pluralism

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 04 Dec 2012

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Jesse Graham, Jonathan Haidt, Sena Koleva, Matt Motyl, Ravi Iyer, Sean P. Wojcik and Peter H. Ditto

University of Southern California, New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, University of California, Irvine - School of Social Ecology, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Southern California, University of California, Irvine and University of California, Irvine

Downloads 6,554

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Ideology, Motivated Reasoning, and Cognitive Reflection: An Experimental Study

Judgment and Decision Making, 8, 407-24 (2013), Cultural Cognition Lab Working Paper No. 107, Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 272

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 30 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 30 Jul 2013

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Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 5,060

12.

The Second National Risk and Culture Study: Making Sense of - and Making Progress In - The American Culture War of Fact

GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 370, Yale Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 154, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 370, Harvard Law School Program on Risk Regulation Research Paper No. 08-26

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 26 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 16 Apr 2013

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Dan M. Kahan, Donald Braman, Paul Slovic, John Gastil and Geoffrey L. Cohen

Yale University - Law School, George Washington University - Law School, Decision Research, Pennsylvania State University and University of Colorado - Department of Psychology

Downloads 4,628

13.

Chilling Effects: Online Surveillance and Wikipedia Use

Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1, p. 117, 2016

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 27 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 08 Sep 2016

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Jon Penney

University of Oxford - Oxford Internet Institute

Downloads 4,453

14.

Fixing the Communications Failure

Nature, Vol. 463, pp. 296-297, 2010

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 25 Jun 2010

Accepted Paper Series

Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 3,908

15.

The Weirdest People in the World?

RatSWD Working Paper No. 139

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 11 May 2010

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Joe Henrich, Steven J. Heine and Ara Norenzayan

University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia (UBC) and University of British Columbia (UBC)

Downloads 3,900

16.

Who Believes that Astrology is Scientific?

Northwestern Public Law Research Paper No. 14-10

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 14 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2014

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James Lindgren

Northwestern University - Pritzker School of Law

Downloads 3,732

17.

Understanding Libertarian Morality: The Psychological Roots of an Individualist Ideology

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 27 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2012

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Ravi Iyer, Sena Koleva, Jesse Graham, Peter H. Ditto and Jonathan Haidt

University of Southern California, University of California, Irvine - School of Social Ecology, University of Southern California, University of California, Irvine and New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business

Downloads 3,712

18.

Understanding Social Media Logic

Media and Communication, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 2-14, 2013

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 Aug 2013

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José van Dijck and Thomas Poell

University of Amsterdam and University of Amsterdam (UvA)

Downloads 3,114

19.

Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Popular Support for Social Movements

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2911177

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 04 Feb 2017

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Matthew Feinberg, Robb Willer and Chloe Kovacheff

University of Toronto - Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Stanford University and University of Toronto - Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Downloads 3,077

20.

Media Disruption Exacerbates Revolutionary Unrest: Evidence from Mubarak’s Quasi-Experiment

APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 01 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 26 Apr 2015

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Navid Hassanpour

School of Political Science, Higher School of Economics

Downloads 2,977

21.

Civic Crowdfunding: Participatory Communities, Entrepreneurs and the Political Economy of Place

Number of pages: 173 Posted: 18 May 2014 Last Revised: 23 May 2014

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Rodrigo Davies

Center for Work, Technology and Organizations

Downloads 2,767

22.

Importance of Social Psychology in the Society

Educational Research International Vol. 3(5) October 2014

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 05 Nov 2014

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Muhammad Abdullah Avais, Aijaz Ali Wassan, Rafique Ahmed Chandio and Muhammad Zakir Shaikh

University of Sindh - Department of Sociology, University of Sindh - Department of Sociology, University of Sindh - Department of Economics and Mehran University of Engineering & Technology

Downloads 2,448

23.

Why We Engage: How Theories of Human Behavior Contribute to Our Understanding of Civic Engagement in a Digital Era

Berkman Center Research Publication No. 21

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Oct 2013

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Eric Gordon, Jessica Baldwin-Philippi and Martina Balestra

Emerson College, Emerson College and New York University (NYU), Students

Downloads 2,414

24.

Who Really Gives? Partisanship and Charitable Giving in the United States

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 18 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 10 Aug 2013

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Michele Margolis and Michael Sances

University of Pennsylvania and University of Memphis - Department of Political Science

Downloads 2,398

25.

Science Curiosity and Political Information Processing

Advances in Political Psychology, Forthcoming, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 561

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 02 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2016

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Dan M. Kahan, Asheley R Landrum, Katie Carpenter, Laura Helft and Kathleen Hall Jamieson

Yale University - Law School, College of Media & Communication, Texas Tech University, Cultural Cognition Project at Yale Law School, Howard Hughes Medical Institute - Tangled Bank Studios and University of Pennsylvania

Downloads 2,368

26.

Twitter in Politics: A Comprehensive Literature Review

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 01 Mar 2014

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Andreas Jungherr

University of Konstanz - Deptment of Politics and Public Administration

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,311

27.

The New Media Technologies: Overview and Research Framework

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 Apr 2008

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Linda Weiser Friedman and Hershey H. Friedman

Baruch College, CUNY - Zicklin School of Business and City University of New York (CUNY) - Department of Business Management

Downloads 2,280

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A Tutorial for Using Twitter Data in the Social Sciences: Data Collection, Preparation, and Analysis

Number of pages: 95 Posted: 06 Jan 2016

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Pascal Jürgens and Andreas Jungherr

Dept. of Communication, U of Mainz, Germany and University of Konstanz - Deptment of Politics and Public Administration

Downloads 2,269

29.

Government Control of the Media

Journal of Public Economics, vol. 118, pp. 163-171, October 2014.

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 15 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 06 Oct 2014

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Scott Gehlbach and Konstantin Sonin

University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Chicago - Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies

Downloads 2,230

30.

On the Evolutionary Origin of Prospect Theory Preferences

Journal of Politics, Vol. 70, No. 2, pp. 335-350, April 2008

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 20 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 19 Aug 2008

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Rose McDermott, James H. Fowler and Oleg Smirnov

University of California, Santa Barbara - Department of Political Science, UC San Diego Division of Social Sciences and State University of New York (SUNY) - Department of Political Science

Downloads 2,224

31.

Reducing Crime and Violence: Experimental Evidence from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Liberia

Number of pages: 119 Posted: 18 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2016

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Christopher Blattman, Julian C. Jamison and Margaret Sheridan

University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy, World Bank Global Insights Initiative and Harvard Medical School/Boston Children's Hospital

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,090

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Facebook is... Fostering Political Engagement: A Study of Online Social Networking Groups and Offline Participation

APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014

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Jessica T. Feezell, Meredith Conroy and Mario Guerrero

University of New Mexico - Department of Political Science, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of California, Santa Barbara

Downloads 2,070

33.

What is the 'Science of Science Communication'?

Journal of Science Communication, 14(3), 1-10 (2015), Yale Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 539

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2016

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Dan M. Kahan

Yale University - Law School

Downloads 2,050

34.

What Causes Terrorism?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Jun 2008 Last Revised: 08 Feb 2010

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Daniel Meierrieks and Tim Krieger

University of Freiburg and University of Freiburg - Department of Economics

Downloads 2,028

35.

The Food Crises and Political Instability in North Africa and the Middle East

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 16 Aug 2011

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Marco Lagi, Karla Z. Bertrand and Yaneer Bar-Yam

New England Complex Systems Institute, New England Complex Systems Institute and New England Complex Systems Institute

Downloads 2,016

36.

Consumer Demand for the Fair Trade Label: Evidence from a Multi-Store Field Experiment

Review of Economics and Statistics, Forthcoming, Formerly: MIT Political Science Department Research Paper No. 2011-9B

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 04 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2014

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Jens Hainmueller, Michael J. Hiscox and Sandra Sequeira

Stanford University - Department of Political Science, Harvard University and London School of Economics

Downloads 1,955

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Twittering the News: The Emergence of Ambient Journalism

Journalism Practice, Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 297-308, July 2010

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 31 Dec 2010

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Alfred Hermida

University of British Columbia - School of Journalism

Downloads 1,948

38.

Bots, #Strongerin, and #Brexit: Computational Propaganda During the UK-EU Referendum

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 21 Jun 2016

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Philip N. Howard and Bence Kollanyi

University of Washington - Department of Communication and Corvinus University of Budapest - Doctoral School of Sociology and Social Policy

Downloads 1,912

39.

Donald Trump and the 'Oxygen of Publicity': Branding, Social Media, and Mass Media in the 2016 Presidential Primary Elections

Paper prepared for the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2016

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 27 Aug 2016

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Sarah Oates and Wendy W. Moe

Philip Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland and University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business

Downloads 1,855

40.

The Euro Area Crisis: Politics Over Economics

MIT Sloan Research Paper No. 5091-14

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Jun 2014

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Athanasios Orphanides

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,819

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The Language of Law and the Practice of Politics: Great Powers and the Rhetoric of Self-Determination in the Cases of Kosovo and South Ossetia

Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 10, p. 1, 2009 , St. John's Legal Studies Research Paper No. 09-0176

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 05 Oct 2009

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Christopher Borgen

St. John's University - School of Law

Downloads 1,806

42.

Behavioral Law and Economics: Its Origins, Fatal Flaws, and Implications for Liberty

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 106, No. 3, 2012, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 12-63

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 18 Sep 2012

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Joshua D. Wright and Douglas H. Ginsburg

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty and U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Downloads 1,775

43.

Media as the Fourth Estate of Democracy

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 25 Aug 2014

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Prabhat Ranjan and Sindhuja Kashyap

Christ University School of Law and Christ University School of Law

Downloads 1,762

44.

How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve Empirical Practice

Number of pages: 146 Posted: 29 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2017

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Jens Hainmueller, Jonathan Mummolo and Yiqing Xu

Stanford University - Department of Political Science, Stanford University, Department of Political Science, Students and University of California, San Diego

Downloads 1,754

45.

Nudging and Choice Architecture: Ethical Considerations

Yale Journal on Regulation, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 18 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2015

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Cass R. Sunstein

Harvard Law School

Downloads 1,752

46.

More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 19 Mar 2013

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Joseph DiGrazia, Karissa McKelvey, Johan Bollen and Fabio Rojas

Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University Bloomington - School of Informatics and Computing and Indiana University

Downloads 1,751

47.

Ideological Segregation Online and Offline

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 10-19, Chicago Booth Initiative on Global Markets Working Paper No. 55.

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 13 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014

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Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse M. Shapiro

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,714

48.

Split Definitive: How Party Polarization Turned the Supreme Court into a Partisan Court

Supreme Court Review, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 03 May 2014 Last Revised: 31 Jan 2017

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Neal Devins and Lawrence Baum

William & Mary Law School and Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Political Science

Downloads 1,678

49.

Doubling Down: Inequality in Responsiveness and the Policy Preferences of Elected Officials

USC CLASS Research Paper No. 14-17

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2016

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Matthew S. Mendez and Christian R. Grose

affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Southern California

Downloads 1,669

50.

Same-Sex Parenting and Children’s Outcomes: A Closer Examination of the American Psychological Association’s Brief on Lesbian and Gay Parenting

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 04 Oct 2011

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Loren Marks

Louisiana State University

Downloads 1,652

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