Cognitive–motivational mechanisms of political polarization in social-communicative contexts

JT Jost, DS Baldassarri, JN Druckman - Nature reviews psychology, 2022‏ - nature.com
Healthy democratic polities feature competing visions of a good society but also require
some level of cooperation and institutional trust. Democracy is at risk when citizens become …

A review and provocation: On polarization and platforms

D Kreiss, SC McGregor - New Media & Society, 2024‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Scholars increasingly point to polarization as a central threat to democracy—and identify
technology platforms as key contributors to polarization. In contrast, we argue that …

Synthetic lies: Understanding ai-generated misinformation and evaluating algorithmic and human solutions

J Zhou, Y Zhang, Q Luo, AG Parker… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023‏ - dl.acm.org
Large language models have abilities in creating high-volume human-like texts and can be
used to generate persuasive misinformation. However, the risks remain under-explored. To …

How digital media drive affective polarization through partisan sorting

P Törnberg - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2022‏ - pnas.org
Politics has in recent decades entered an era of intense polarization. Explanations have
implicated digital media, with the so-called echo chamber remaining a dominant causal …

Leveraging AI for democratic discourse: Chat interventions can improve online political conversations at scale

LP Argyle, CA Bail, EC Busby, JR Gubler… - Proceedings of the …, 2023‏ - pnas.org
Political discourse is the soul of democracy, but misunderstanding and conflict can fester in
divisive conversations. The widespread shift to online discourse exacerbates many of these …

Do social media undermine social cohesion? A critical review

S González‐Bailón, Y Lelkes - Social Issues and Policy …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
We evaluate the empirical evidence interrogating the question of whether social media
erodes social cohesion. We look at how networks, information exchange, and norms operate …

Social media and morality

JJ Van Bavel, CE Robertson… - Annual review of …, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Nearly five billion people around the world now use social media, and this number
continues to grow. One of the primary goals of social media platforms is to capture and …

Interventions to reduce partisan animosity

R Hartman, W Blakey, J Womick, C Bail… - Nature human …, 2022‏ - nature.com
Rising partisan animosity is associated with a reduction in support for democracy and an
increase in support for political violence. Here we provide a multi-level review of …

Information aggregation and collective intelligence beyond the wisdom of crowds

T Kameda, W Toyokawa, RS Tindale - Nature Reviews Psychology, 2022‏ - nature.com
In humans and other gregarious animals, collective decision-making is a robust behavioural
feature of groups. Pooling individual information is also fundamental for modern societies, in …

Inside the funhouse mirror factory: How social media distorts perceptions of norms

CE Robertson, KS Del Rosario, JJ Van Bavel - Current Opinion in …, 2024‏ - Elsevier
The current paper explains how modern technology interacts with human psychology to
create a funhouse mirror version of social norms. We argue that norms generated on social …