📣New Preprint Alert! Esther Maassen meticulously simulated the effect of p-hacking and publication bias on effect size & heterogeneity estimates. 💡bad: selective outcome reporting & optional dropping 💡bad: publication bias 💡not so bad: optional stopping/outlier removal osf.io/preprints/ps...

🧵 Why do facts often change beliefs but not attitudes? In a new WP with @yamilrvelez.bsky.social and @scottclifford.bsky.social, we caution against interpreting this as rigidity or motivated reasoning. Often, the beliefs *relevant* to people’s attitudes are not what researchers expect.

I am really pleased to see our meta-analysis of media literacy interventions (160 studies!) has been published in HCR. Unsurprisingly, there is a lot of nuance. One piece of good news is that the interventions work longitudinally. Free download here: academic.oup.com/hcr/advance-...

Just read this lovely experiment on the (null) persuasive effects of "listening" by Erik Santoro, @dbroockman.bsky.social @jkalla.bsky.social and @ronip.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... Left: survey of prior beliefs Right: Results It's the persuasive appeal that does the work.

So far persuasion work in polisci has mostly centered on message -> opinion (main result imo: messages have small fx in the right direction that don't differ too much by message or person or issue) with less work on message -> attention need to figure out experimental paradigm for attention

I've updated the marketing replication tracker through 2024. So far, 5 out of 45 (11%) of all direct replications of marketing studies (studies published in scientific marketing journals such as Journal of Consumer Research and Journal of Marketing Research). openmkt.org/research/rep...

🚨New publication out today🚨 led by my former advisee, Emily Andrews, this meta-analysis highlights the importance of trust and conspiracy theories in vaccine hesitancy, and the nuanced role each plays. Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Now in print (Open Access): doi.org/10.1080/1931... Explains a common reasoning mistake in communication research, identifies multiple examples of the mistake, and discusses implications of and remedies for this problem.

New Pub: Mike Kotowski and I wanted to move forward the technology of employing opinion leaders for vaccine promotion campaigns. So we developed a new method of identifying their self-schema and matching campaign recruiting messages to it. Free copies here: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/SA3AT...

NEW📚Our *free* #openaccess book "Measuring Exposure and Attention to Media and Communication: Solutions to Wicked Problems" is out🚀 A privilege to work w/Peter Neijens, @judith-moeller.bsky.social @theoaraujo.bsky.social. 🙏@ascor.bsky.social for support. 📢Share #CommSky www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

I've been thinking about this work as I watch. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Old--but perhaps of current interest: www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Humbled. And grateful. www.icahdq.org/blogpost/152...

Congratulations to @aecoppock.bsky.social whose book, “Persuasion in Parallel,” has won the Robert E. Lane Best Book Award from the APSA Political Psychology Section!  Thanks to Margit Tavits and Josh Gubler for serving on the committee.

BlueSky June! Many people who have a BlueSky account still prioritize posting, reading, and asking questions on Twitter. So for the rest of June, I ask you to commit to using BlueSky before the mess called X. Please retweet and tag people! 1/

Preprint now online (Open Access) concerning a common reasoning mistake in communication research:   www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our meta-analysis of 2018-20 ad experiments is now out at APSR! paper (open-access): doi.org/10.1017/S0003055423001387 Tagging bluesky coauthors @dbroockman.bsky.social, @benmtappin.bsky.social and @jslez.bsky.social Thread ⬇️

Hey commsky folks! Some ideas/arguments about persuasive messaging theory/research that I've wanted to make for a while: doi.org/10.1093/hcr/... Hope you'll check it out! #commsky

Help out my awesome grad student: Seeking gay men for a paid ($40) research opportunity aimed at increasing the effectiveness of sexual health messaging for the Queer community. If interested, please fill out this eligibility survey: delaware.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...