Christian Pieter Hoffmann
@cphoffmann
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Prof @UniLeipzig @ifkmw & Institute for PolSci @crifc_de @cdp_org (Private account & personal opinions, of course.)
Joined November 2009
“Why is this so important? Because it shows that the total share of votes of the right increases when there are two right-wing parties on the ballot, a classical and a radical one, as they cater to similar but not fully overlapping demographics.” 👇🏼
Very happy to see my paper “How substitutable are the classical and radical right?” with Carlos Sanz (at the Banco de España and CEMFI) published in the Journal of Public Economics. The paper addresses a simple question: take a party of the classical right (e.g., CDU in Germany
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An adversarial collaboration on "cancel culture" reveals that a substantial number of university students support restrictions on academic debate and research on campus, including the cancellation of talks, the revocation of teaching positions, and the removal of books.
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#CancelCulture: Deutsche Studierende canceln laut Studie in @PNASNews eher konservative Standpunkte, da sie diese als gesellschaftlich gefährlicher wahrnehmen. Fachleute halten die Studie für robust, kritisieren aber Fragestellungen und Interpretation:
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Cancel Culture: Studierende canceln laut Studie eher konservative Positionen. Forschende halten Daten für solide, kritisieren teils Fragen und Interpretation.
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Laypeople Have Difficulty Processing Efficiency When Assessing Environmental Policies New Open Access paper on people's judgments of environmental policies with @hugo_trad and @stricklandbrent at Behavioral Public Policy https://t.co/9t3PnGTuwE 
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Pretty effective review of psych research on core differences between liberals and conservatives. Nice TLDR in Table 1. That said, it’s hard to imagine an area of research at greater risk of compromise by ideological skew among the researchers. https://t.co/zTlR3AY163
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A key debate in the psychology of ideology is whether leftists and rightists are psychologically similar or different. A long-standing view holds that left-wing and right-wing people are meaningfully...
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Next up: Study finds that fewer and fewer citizens trust in experts and in universities.
I highly encourage econ to not go down the road many parts of the sciences have gone down, being seen as political actors. People trust us on economic topics *because* we don't do things like this. (Also global individual level inequality has been falling straight for 35 yrs...)
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Result 1b: Neutral news is shared more often than partisan news, and high-quality domains appear more frequently than low-quality ones. These plots are normalized within each platform; the dominance of high-quality news is even stronger without normalization across platforms.
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🚨Out in PNAS🚨 Examining news on 7 platforms: 1)Right-leaning platforms=lower quality news 2)Echo-platforms: Right-leaning news gets more engagement on right-leaning platforms, vice-versa for left-leaning 3)Low-quality news gets more engagement EVERYWHERE https://t.co/kRzHK4YP9Q
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„Hahaaaa, look, a bot that was programmed to please me actually agrees with me after I gave it a chance to learn my point of view!“ The revealed lack of AI literacy is sometimes embarrassing, sometimes alarming.
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It is so strange when people post screenshots of an AI agreeing with them as if it was proof of anything other than their own worldview and their personal interactions with the AI.
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Empirical support of the idea that the alarmist narratives on online misinformation can have negative effects is growing. https://t.co/ZYuFBKJFHg
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Political Behavior - Could news coverage of misinformation be harmful? Across two studies on U.S. citizens, we examine whether news coverage of misinformation generates misperceptions and decreases...
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In his latest piece in Persuasion, @danwilliamsphil defines what "highbrow misinformation" is and how to fix it. Read the full article here: https://t.co/4LfjdYsDxI
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Institutions can fall prey to groupthink. That doesn’t mean they’re inherently flawed.
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1. Recent work suggests that signaling victimhood is a route to status: people excuse the bad behavior of victim signalers, defer to them, and share resources with them. In a new paper, we find that the victim signaling approach to status comes at a reputational cost.
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Citizens who lose trust in established media don’t stop consuming news. They go looking for alternative sources. No analysis of „misinformation“ or the rise of influencers is complete without taking these dynamics into account.
How right‑wing influencers and Trump officials work in lockstep — targeting perceived adversaries, amplifying false claims and reshaping US media. A new mainstream is here. Read @Reuters findings: https://t.co/CQlJxhxHjz
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„Results show broad support for engagement in initiatives related to environmental sustainability, well-being, and free speech but opposition to political engagement. Views on DEI are polarized“ 👇🏼
The role of universities has recently come into question. In a paper published today in Science Advances, we show that the general public expects universities to do more than education and research; with some disagreement on exactly what they should do
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Given the debate about the Democratic congressional delegation's ideological movement--maybe useful to see just how far left Democratic people have shifted in the last 15 years--especially on race and economics. Data from @electionstudies CDF & 2024 timeseries
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I've read wild, unverified rumours that X is no longer downranking links. Here is my most recent article, 5000 words on the pathologies of our most prestigious knowledge-producing institutions and why "alternative media" is nevertheless much, much worse: https://t.co/w9VGL9yNJW
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Studying social sciences & humanities makes students more left-leaning, controlling for initial views & major preference, driven by cultural views. Implies that if all students majored in business, college–noncollege ideological gap would shrink by 1/3 https://t.co/qbjxdFVPlr
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While academics and journalists mostly complain about overload, maybe the rest of people just enjoy having access to more information?
What if people appreciate having an abundance of content and communication, more than they feel overloaded by it? Anne Schulz et al decided to have a look. Results? "We found that appreciation for abundance was about twice as common as overload". Paper: https://t.co/ChAJF02gAh
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Nice illustration of the fact that surveys asking participants how often they encounter misinformation don’t tell us much about misinformation exposure without a host of follow-up questions. What do these Republicans mean when they say they see a lot of inaccurate news? 👇🏼🤷♂️
Republicans are more likely than Democrats to say they often come across inaccurate news (48% vs. 38%). And they are also more likely to say they find it difficult to determine what's true and what’s not (56% vs. 45%).
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