Ethan Porter

George Washington University

Assistant Professor

2121 I Street NW

Washington, DC 20052

United States

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1.

The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes' Steadfast Factual Adherence

Forthcoming, Political Behavior
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 06 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2018
Thomas Wood and Ethan Porter
Ohio State University (OSU) and George Washington University
Downloads 3,960 (2,245)
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Factual Corrections, Public Opinion

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Taking Fact-checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability

Forthcoming at Political Behavior
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 10 Jan 2019
Brendan Nyhan, Ethan Porter, Jason Reifler and Thomas Wood
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, George Washington University, University of Exeter and Ohio State University (OSU)
Downloads 1,488 (11,657)
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Fact checking, corrections, misperceptions, backfire effect, debunking, motivated reasoning

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Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government

Harvard Business School Marketing Unit Working Paper No. 14-034, Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 14-034
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 06 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2018
Ryan W. Buell, Ethan Porter and Michael I. Norton
Harvard Business School, George Washington University and Harvard Business School - Marketing Unit
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Government services, behavioral operations, operational transparency, trust

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Sex Trafficking, Russian Infiltration, Birth Certificates, and Pedophilia: A Survey Experiment Correcting Fake News

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 21 Nov 2017
Ethan Porter, Thomas Wood and David Kirby
George Washington University, Ohio State University (OSU) and Cato Institute
Downloads 269 (112,651)
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misinformation, fake news, public opinion

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Bread and Butter or Bread and Roses? Experimental Evidence on Why Public Sector Employees Support Unions

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 04 Aug 2018
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez and Ethan Porter
Columbia University - School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA) and George Washington University
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Making a President: Performance, Public Opinion, and the (Temporary) Transmutation of Donald J. Trump

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 06 Feb 2018
William G. Howell, Ethan Porter and Thomas Wood
University of Chicago - Department of Political Science, George Washington University and Ohio State University (OSU)
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Trump, public opinion

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Presidential Debates in the Age of Partisan Media: A Field Experiment

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Mar 2017
Kimberly Gross, Ethan Porter and Thomas Wood
George Washington University - Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, George Washington University and Ohio State University (OSU)
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presidential election, presidential debates, media effects, Trump, Clinton, public opinion, partisan media, Fox News, MSNBC

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Information, Knowledge and Attitudes: An Evaluation of the Taxpayer Receipt

Forthcoming, Journal of Politics
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 01 Dec 2016 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2018
Lucy Barnes, Avi Feller, Jake Haselswerdt and Ethan Porter
University College London, University of California, Berkeley - The Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy, George Washington University - Department of Political Science and George Washington University
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Taxes, Political Knowledge, Public Opinion, Taxpayer Receipt

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The Consumer Logic of Anti-Government Antagonism

APSA 2013 Annual Meeting Paper, American Political Science Association 2013 Annual Meeting
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 02 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2017
Ethan Porter
George Washington University
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trust in government, government spending, behavioral economics, Hurricane Sandy, consumer psychology