Donny Snyder
@DonaldESnyder3
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Political Science PhD student @umasspolisci | @NSF GRFP Fellow | Researching interventions to reduce partisan animosity
Joined April 2019
Do you want to use GPT for text analysis in R? @steverathje2 and I filmed a 15-min tutorial on using the GPT API to perform text analysis tasks (e.g. sentiment analysis or emotion detection) in R. https://t.co/ZzC14uI8wB
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It still feels incredibly surreal, but I was awarded the NSF GRFP!! I am so very grateful to everyone who has helped me along the way!
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The study 1 results suggest a sizable persuasive advantage to political microtargeting. The precision-weighted ATE under microtargeting was approx. 70% larger than single-best-message (5.96 vs. 3.48, p = 0.004) and over 200% larger than naive (5.96 vs. 1.79, p < 0.001).
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Dueling waves? Our @UMassPoll results suggest that Democrats are very excited to vote ... but Republicans are even more excited.
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Rewatching The Office and out of nowhere it perfectly sums up what a lot of common ingroup identity interventions feel like to me
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Media has become increasingly negative since 2000, with more and more headlines expressing fear, anger, sadness, and disgust. Neutral headlines are getting rarer. https://t.co/nPp0HHnzUV
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A megastudy on a national sample of partisans (n=32,059) tested 25 interventions designed to reduce anti-democratic attitudes & partisan animosity. The top 3 were: -intergroup contact -addressing mistrust in the media -creating a common ingroup identity https://t.co/YYZ6V579nr
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🚨New preprint🚨 Are identity-based interventions effective in reducing the spread of partisan misinformation? We find they are more effective than other popular interventions 🧵👇 Via @alijaveed_ @DianaRHughes1 @KobiHackenburg @manos_tsakiris @OVilarroya @jayvanbavel
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Thanks to everyone who attended my first in-person panel presentation ever this morning at #ISPP2022. I was very nervous but it turned out to be a great learning experience! Always eager for the opportunity to explain Construal Level Theory to other political scientists
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It is time for a bit of courage and innovation: The JOP will start accepting Registered Reports as a new article format in January 2023. Publication decisions for RR will be based on the merits of the research question and design, irrespective of the empirical results. 1/11 🧵⬇️
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Check out this must-read report from @Beyond_Conflict examining the psychological drivers of division and democratic decline in the US. Find out what's contributing to our growing divide and how we can come together to solve our shared challenges here: https://t.co/zVKXwjoWqZ
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🧵 Our latest @UMassPoll examines the landscape heading into the 2022 Midterms. Is it the economy, stupid? Plus a doozy of a result on whether a GOP House should impeach Biden. @TatisheNteta @JesseHRhodes @raylaraja @umasspolsci @UMassAmherst @SBS_UMass
https://t.co/tt58fAQiXk
umass.edu
The poll also finds that economic concerns dominate voters’ views toward the midterm elections, while Biden and Trump may to be headed toward a presidential rematch in 2024.
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A stunning 68% of Republicans say the House should impeach Joe Biden if the GOP wins the majority...
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🧵Our latest @UMassPoll offers one of the first post-Dobbs-leak snapshots of a nation processing a post-Roe future, and insight on the relative lack of victory laps by GOP elites. @TatisheNteta @JesseHRhodes @RayLaRaja @umasspolsci @UMassAmherst @SBS_UMass
https://t.co/CG03SEOAHM
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The timely national poll shows a plurality of Americans are unhappy with indications that the court is prepared to overturn Roe v. Wade, and want Congress to pass a law legalizing abortion in all 50...
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Narrative interventions using storytelling may provide impactful solutions for shifting behavioral intentions, beliefs, and attitudes. @RezBilali
psychologicalscience.org
Narrative interventions using storytelling may provide impactful solutions for shifting behavioral intentions, beliefs, and attitudes around extremist violence.
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Only if that person VERY recently took the LSAT. If it were up to me, the nomination would go to someone fresh off an impressive middle school mock trial performance.
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🚨NEW POLL from @DataProgress @LetsUnpac @EqualCitizensUS: Not only do American voters support the Freedom to Vote John Lewis Act, they also support the Democrats’ plan to alter the Senate rules to allow it to pass with a simple majority vote.
dataforprogress.org
Sixty-three percent of likely voters expressed support for the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act.
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Dr. Robert Malone was on the Joe Rogan Experience and claimed that people advocating for vaccinations + public health are suffering from "mass formation psychosis". I was asked if this exists as a concept. I just co-wrote a book on collective behavior and the answer is NO.
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Viewing Nature’s 2020 endorsement of Biden does not change views of Trump or Biden but does reduce trust in Nature & science generally among Trump supporters & reduce requests for Nature articles on COVID. It has little impact on Biden supporters https://t.co/XvBzrzkSj6
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This @UVA alum wrote a piece w/ uber @umasspolsci PhD students @LaneGCuthbert & @DonaldESnyder3 for the 1/6 edition of @LarrySabato’s Crystal Ball. @UMassAmherst @SBS_UMass @Center4Politics @kkondik New @UMassPoll Shows a GOP Still in Trump’s Grip https://t.co/mPE4rB6AZr
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