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It’s not my consensus: Motivated reasoning and the sources of scientific illiteracy by Pasek, Josh

“…Individuals who provide incorrect answers to scientific knowledge questions have long been considered scientifically illiterate. Yet, increasing evidence…”
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Explaining the Diversity Deficit: Value-Trait Consistency in News Exposure and Democratic Citizenship by Kim, Dam Hee, Pasek, Josh

“…Although scholars consider it important for citizens to seek diverse information to optimize citizenship, a growing body of research suggests that many people…”
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Negativity and Positivity Biases in Economic News Coverage: Traditional Versus Social Media by Soroka, Stuart, Daku, Mark, Hiaeshutter-Rice, Dan, Guggenheim, Lauren, Pasek, Josh

“…Past work suggests that the priorities for information propagation in social media may be markedly different from the priorities for news selection in…”
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A Partisan Pandemic: How COVID-19 Was Primed for Polarization by Hegland, Austin, Zhang, Annie Li, Zichettella, Brianna, Pasek, Josh

“…Americans who affiliate with both major political parties rapidly formed diverging attitudes about the COVID-19 pandemic. Matters of scientific concern have…”
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What motivates a conspiracy theory? Birther beliefs, partisanship, liberal-conservative ideology, and anti-Black attitudes by Pasek, Josh, Stark, Tobias H., Krosnick, Jon A., Tompson, Trevor

“…Despite the release of his birth certificate, some Americans express continued skepticism over whether Barack Obama was born in the United States. This study…”
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Who’s Tweeting About the President? What Big Survey Data Can Tell Us About Digital Traces? by Pasek, Josh, McClain, Colleen A., Newport, Frank, Marken, Stephanie

“…Researchers hoping to make inferences about social phenomena using social media data need to answer two critical questions: What is it that a given social…”
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Social Media as an Alternative to Surveys of Opinions About the Economy by Conrad, Frederick G., Gagnon-Bartsch, Johann A., Ferg, Robyn A., Schober, Michael F., Pasek, Josh, Hou, Elizabeth

“…There is interest in using social media content to supplement or even substitute for survey data. In one of the first studies to test the feasibility of this…”
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Perceptions of health risks of cigarette smoking: A new measure reveals widespread misunderstanding by Krosnick, Jon A, Malhotra, Neil, Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung, Bruera, Eduardo F, Chang, LinChiat, Pasek, Josh, Thomas, Randall K

“…Most Americans recognize that smoking causes serious diseases, yet many Americans continue to smoke. One possible explanation for this paradox is that perhaps…”
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Americans’ Attitudes toward the Affordable Care Act: What Role Do Beliefs Play? by Li, Gabriel Miao, Pasek, Josh, Krosnick, Jon A., Stark, Tobias H., Agiesta, Jennifer, Sood, Gaurav, Tompson, Trevor, Gross, Wendy

“…How do people form their attitudes toward complex policy issues? Although there has long been an assumption that people consider the various components of…”
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Exploring the Role of Media Use Within an Integrated Behavioral Model (IBM) Approach to Vote Likelihood by Holbert, R. Lance, Dias, Nicholas C., Hardy, Bruce W., Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, Levendusky, Matthew S., Renninger, Andrew S., Romer, Daniel, Winneg, Kenneth M., Pasek, Josh

“…Political interest is a key predictor of likelihood to vote. We argue that the political interest–vote intention relationship can be explained by…”
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Understanding the rationales and information environments for early, late, and nonadopters of the COVID-19 vaccine by Singh, Lisa, Bao, Le, Bode, Leticia, Budak, Ceren, Pasek, Josh, Raghunathan, Trivellore, Traugott, Michael, Wang, Yanchen, Wycoff, Nathan

“…Anti-vaccine sentiment during the COVID-19 pandemic grew at an alarming rate, leaving much to understand about the relationship between people’s vaccination…”
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Correction: Perceptions of health risks of cigarette smoking: A new measure reveals widespread misunderstanding by Krosnick, Jon A, Malhotra, Neil, Mo, Cecilia Hyunjung, Bruera, Eduardo F, Chang, LinChiat, Pasek, Josh, Thomas, Randall K

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0182063.]…”
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Promoting and Enabling Reproducible Data Science Through a Reproducibility Challenge by Jing Liu, Jacob Carlson, Josh Pasek, Brian Puchala, Arvind Rao, H. V. Jagadish

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When will Nonprobability Surveys Mirror Probability Surveys? Considering Types of Inference and Weighting Strategies as Criteria for Correspondence by Pasek, Josh

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Building Social Capital in Young People: The Role of Mass Media and Life Outlook by Romer, Daniel, Jamieson, Kathleen Hall, Pasek, Josh

“…In this study we evaluate different models of media use to determine whether television and other popular media facilitate or hinder the development of social…”
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Improving social media measurement in surveys: Avoiding acquiescence bias in Facebook research by Kuru, Ozan, Pasek, Josh

“…Social media measurement relies heavily on self-report survey research. Hence, known biases in how individuals answer survey questions can introduce systematic…”
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THE POLLS–REVIEW: PREDICTING ELECTIONS: CONSIDERING TOOLS TO POOL THE POLLS by PASEK, JOSH

“…Surveys have long been critical tools for understanding elections and forecasting their results. As the number of election surveys has increased in prevalence,…”
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Some Deficits and Some Misperceptions: Linking Partisanship With Climate Change Cognitions by Chinn, Sedona, Pasek, Josh

“…Abstract Partisans appear to hold very different information about climate change, with Republicans more likely to respond to knowledge questions incorrectly…”
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MOTIVATED REASONING IN THE PERCEIVED CREDIBILITY OF PUBLIC OPINION POLLS by KURU, OZAN, PASEK, JOSH, TRAUGOTT, MICHAEL W.

“…How do citizens' motivations shape their perceptions of poll reports? Increasingly, scholars are finding that citizens engage in motivated reasoning, whereby…”
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Predicting Elections: Considering Tools to Pool the Polls by Pasek, Josh

“…Surveys have long been critical tools for understanding elections and forecasting their results. As the number of election surveys has increased in prevalence,…”
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