Publications

1. Democracy and Information Group
2. Publications

Select Journal Articles

• Dias, N., Lelkes, Y. (In Press). "The Partisan Roots of Affective Polarization: Disentangling Partisanship from Policy Positions." American Journal of Political Science.
• Mukerjee, S., & Yang, T. (2020). "Choosing to Avoid? A Conjoint Experimental Study to Understand Selective Exposure and Avoidance on Social Media." Political Communication, 1-19.
• Fischer, S., Jaidka, K, Lelkes, Y. (2020). "Topical biases in local news curation: an audit of Google News." Nature Human Behavior.
• Moore-Berg, S. L., Parelman, J. M., Lelkes, Y., & Falk, E. B. (2020). "Neural polarization and routes to depolarization." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(46), 28552-28554.
• Westwood, S. J., Messing, S., & Lelkes, Y. (2020). "Projecting confidence: How the probabilistic horse race confuses and demobilizes the public." The Journal of Politics, 82(4), 1530-1544.
• Jaidka, K., Zhou, A., & Lelkes, Y. (2019). "Brevity is the soul of Twitter: The constraint affordanceand political discussion." Journal of Communication, (69)4, 345-372.

Op-Eds

• "How Google is hurting local news." Washington Post, December 22, 2020.
• "Election forecasts helped elect Trump in 2016. It could happen again in 2020." USA Today, October 1, 2020.
• "Our study found little evidence that Twitter is biased against conservative opinion leaders." Washington Post, July 9, 2020.

• "Twitter got somewhat more civil when tweets doubled in length. Here’s how we know." Washington Post, September 17, 2019.

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