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Associate Prof @UvA_ASCoR Amsterdam | Dark politics, Political communication & psych, Negative campaigns, Leader personality | Associate Editor @journalEPOP

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Alessandro Nai
6 months
🚨Dark Politics is now out at @OxUniPress in paperback, hardcover, ebook Feeling that politics is getting dark? We have a book for ya We investigate dark personality traits in politicians worldwide, and why they matter - for voters, elections, and democracy mini🧵(& voucher!)
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Scientists at the University of Palo Alto have reconstructed this 3D model of how Narcissus, famous for falling in love with his own reflection and staring at it for the remainder of his life, might have looked
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I wrote an R package - RgRet - which basically only returns the message "Are you sure you do not want to try this with Stata instead?" regardless of what you type
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Professors: please note that I am no longer required to assist you, but am henceforth allowed to Associate with you
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2 years
Parents, please check your kids' halloween candies. I just found a KKV inside of a peanut butter cup
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Delighted to announce that I recently reached an important milestone ** the 100th journal rejection! ** Some articles were particularly fecund contributors to this trend, as you can see below 👇👇
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@OptimoPrincipi Incidentally, Boudican Destruction Horizon is a MAGNIFICENT name for a nu-indie post-folk brass band
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Game of Thrones? The Wheel of Time? The Rings of Power? Nah, just some fortified town (vestingsteden) in the Netherlands. Pretty awesome (Bourtange, Elburg, Gorinchem, Naarden)
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We have a cover!🔥 DARK POLITICS, out this December at @OUPPolitics with @MaierJuergen Could not be happier, graphics team did a marvellous job
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Three (3) reject this week. Three. Ok, sure, rejections are part of the job, one step backward two forward, learning never ends, yada yada yada. Still, it always f**king stings #AcademicTwitter
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#PolCom hive mind! 🚨 I am still looking for contributors for the Encyclopedia of Political Communication 🔥 230+ entries confirmed so far, but entries 👇 are still in search of authors. Send email if YOU are interested (no guarantees ofc) Plz RT for reach & diversity 💜
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It's book contract day! 🚨📚 Dark Politics: The Dark Personality of Politicians and the Future of Democracy With @MaierJuergen , out next year at OUP @OxUniPress (title is provisional, suggestions most welcome)
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Just a few days after turning 40, the notification of acceptance of paper #40 . (this last one is a really cool piece with @tim_gravelle and @MikeMikeMed , more info about that piece soon) A few thoughts about #40by40 in a short🧵, if you allow me
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🚨 Delighted to share the new article below, out at @apsr_journal The article leverages real-time data collected on social media to investigate the persuasive effects of exposure to low-quality humoristic manipulations ➡️Ungated:
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🚨CALL FOR AUTHORS🚨 We are looking for authors willing to write a short entry (2.5k words) on the topics below for our Encyclopedia of Political Communication Interested? ➡️Reach out asap via email (a.nai @uva .nl) and let us know! Plz RT for N and diversity
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Ok, time to get scared - or to seriously discuss re how to tackle this as educators I asked the new @OpenAI chatbot to "write a short essay about whether negative campaigning is beneficial or damaging for society" The answer below is at least undergrad short essay level
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🚨Is negative campaigning linked to an increase in affective polarization in the public? You bet! New comparative evidence in article out at @ElectoralStdies w Danielle Martin Open access article: Negative campaigning data:
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Our #Eurovision & #populism paper is out at @ActaPolitica ! One of my faves TLRD: @elyyoung2 @LindaBos80 and I show that populist countries vote more for songs showcasing ethno-traditional elements A short 🧵 with music, sequins, and general awesomeness
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🚨🔥 DATA RELEASE 🔥🚨 New large-scale comparative dataset on (negative) campaigns and candidate personality worldwide With the upcoming publication of our #DarkPolitics book, I am releasing version 2.0 of the NEGex dataset Open data: Info in short 🧵
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It's book contract signing day! 📚✏️ The Psychology of Election Campaign Negativity: Perceptions, Evaluations, and Effects Forthcoming 2023 with @Luk_O at @routledgebooks new ‘Current Issues in Political Psychology’ series Time to put the head down and write this bad boy
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Apropos of nothing, Swiss vs. Dutch opinion polls over time
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If it's on Amazon it means it's real, right? #DarkPolitics out at OUP on Dec 11 (also in paperback, in case you are already starting to think about Xmas gifts for your annoying uncle)
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Stunned & delighted to win @ActaPolitica best paper award - thanks to the jury for their kind words! 💜
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Congratulations to @alessandro_nai , @AnkeTresch and Jürgen Maier who won the 2022 Acta Politica Best Paper Award! Their paper, "Hardwired to attack. Candidates’ personality traits and negative campaigning in three European countries", is in Open Access:
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@travis_view @KevinReuning (O) (B) (A) (M) (A) (15) (2) (1) (13) (1) (15*2)-(13+2-1-1)=17 17=Q Here you go, it was right there
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Super happy to join the @journalEPOP dream team!
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JEPOP
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📢We are so happy to announce that @alessandro_nai will be joining us as a new Associate Editor for JEPOP! Welcome aboard!!! @MonaKrewel @zacdgreene @BestRobinE @psaepop
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Delighted of having been awarded the prize for the "Most Influential Article" published in 2022 in the #APRJ ➡️Announcement from the Journal Editors:
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@alixabeth Caramel & sea salt chocolate from @TonyChocolonely . A lot of it.
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We really live in the stupidest of all possible timelines
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Natalie Allison
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To recap, Trump couldn’t decide whether to endorse Eric Greitens or Eric Schmitt in the Missouri Senate race, so he just endorses “ERIC” the night before the election. Now both are graciously thanking him for his sincere support.
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🚨New piece out at @EJPRjournal with @MatteoCasiragh3 & @Curini We investigate what drives perceptions of populism - are they in the eye of the beholder? Open access:
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🚨New article out at @ABSjournal with @MaierJuergen TLDR: exposure to negative & uncivil political messages drives affective polarization upwards, especially among voters with populist attitudes Open access: Replication data:
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🚨fully funded PhD position in Political Communication @UvA_ASCoR ! 🚨 Looking for a PhD candidate for a 4-year project on the communication roots of #AffectivePolarization in NL 🔥 Could this be you? Deadline May 20 Plz retweet for N & diversity! ➡️
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@amydjohn Read one randomly selected article (loosely connected to your topic, but not necessarily) each week. Not in depth, just to get the sense of what is out there. This also helps setting up the boundaries of the discipline, and gives you perhaps new ideas. Good luck with your thesis!
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Very humbled to be a recipient of this year's #ICA @poli_com Outstanding Reviewer Award - a task made particularly pleasant by the outstanding level of the papers to review in the first place
@poli_com
APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions
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Congratulations to the Outstanding #ICA21 Reviewers who "provided particularly thoughtful, detailed, profound feedback" on submissions to the #Polcom @icahdq conference: @alessandro_nai , @DrBoulianne , and @JosephineLukito ! Many, many thanks for your contributions!!
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I asked my students to send me the photo of their preferred political poster as a #HiddenAssignment in the syllabus - not disappointed at all so far
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Wonderful surprise today in the mailbox! Thank you so much @UlrikeKlinger ! 🔥 Really looking forward to dive into this, looks like a fantastic resource for scholars of #polcomm at all levels
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2 years
Quickly scraped the #ica22 program (panels only) for this word cloud. (covid-19 is the 6th most frequent word, once removed "empty" words such as panel, chair, Hyatt etc and country names)
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@goodreads The one that has been on their nightstand for two years (yes, that one)
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1 year
How is YOUR day going, fellow (A)Es?
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Had to cancel my flight to the 🇺🇸 (f.u., covid), so it will be dinner for one this Xmas eve Mont d'or Fennel sausage Brussel sprouts Pinot Grigio del Trentino #poliscicooks #lonelyxmas
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🚨PhD position in Pol Comm🚨 We are looking for a PhD candidate on the project 'The Role of Social Norms in Negative Campaigning and Affective Polarization', supervised by the awesome @CorinnaOschatz , myself, and Andreas Schuck Please RT for N and diversity! See details below
@CorinnaOschatz
Corinna Oschatz | [email protected]
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Come and work with us in beautiful Amsterdam! We are looking for a PhD student to explore the 'Role of Social Norms in Negative Campaigning and Affective Polarization' Deadline: 10 Jan 24 Starting: Preferably April 24 Details: RT=🧡 @UvA_ASCoR @Polcomm
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🚨 PEER REVIEW STUDY ALERT 🚨 We are about to launch a (very) large-scale survey on peer review in social sciences 150,000+ scholars worldwide will receive an invitation to participate via email. You might be one of them! Wanna know more? ➡️ Plz RT!
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🚨 New article out at PAID I triangulate @csestweets voter data in 22 countries and personality expert ratings for 49 top politicians🌍 TL;DR: voters scoring high on #populist attitudes tend to like politicians with dark personality traits ➡️ ungated:
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🚨New paper out at @Journal_PoPs with dream team @chiara_vargiu @chiaralisavalli Experiments in🇨🇭🇺🇸 show that incivility can be persuasive... ... especially for more aggressive ppl (high populism, dark personality) ➡️ Open data:
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Dear author, [...] Unfortunately,
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. @UvA_Amsterdam at night
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@RespectfulMemes Narita's also adorbs
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This will seem inconsequential to many of you (there are reviewing machines out there) but I just passed the bar of 200 reviews made, and it feels good. Peer reviewing is not a perfect system, by far, and certainly can be improved. But it remains an important part of what we do
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Oh #Amsterdam , how much I love thee
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@jacobdotgov Favourite guy? Agree Favourite performance, tho, is indisputably 👇
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@KiaThomasEdits War and Fucking Peace
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@ding0ring @jojogotschwifty @HumansNoContext Love is something you cannot shoes
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@imhartshorn "Schrödinger's faculty"
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Ok, Norway, you can stop with all this awesomeness - we got the message
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@SaulGonzalezCA He is pulling the much more sophisticated Oppenarbie Barbenheimer clearly is for uncouth folks
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A quick primer on negative campaigning, in case you need a recap of what we know (and don't know) about it
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🤷'If you have a low chance of winning, what are the risks of going negative?'😡 @Alessandro_Nai tells you all about negative campaigning in our new video! Full vid:
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🚨 New out at @ElectoralStdies on candidate dark personality Are candidates w dark personality (narcissism, psychopathy, Machiav.) liked less? TLDR: In survey and experiment data dark traits reduce candidate likability, more strongly than the positive effects of positive traits
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New article out at @WEPsocial ! @fmartinezicoma and myself show that #populists have a very peculiar #personality : low agreeableness, emotional stability and conscientiousness + high extraversion, narcissism, psychopathy and Machiavellianism -> (ungated)
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Are psychopaths more likely to win elections? Do populists score higher in narcissism and lower in conscientiousness? Are agreeable candidates less likely to go negative? Find out in my new article (and dataset!) #personality #dataset @poli_com
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Are #populists more aggressive in their campaigns? Looking at the campaign strategies of 195 candidates worldwide, I show that populists are more likely go #negative and use #fear appeals than non-populists Check the new article here, in open access!
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@jbouie Cannot unsee: a happy whale ready to eat up alaska
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🚨New article out at @PRQjournal with the fantastic @IrisVerhulsdonk and @jeffreykarp In three experiments in 🇺🇸🇳🇱 we show that using humor is a winning strategy when going negative: less backlash, same effectiveness When in doubt, be funny Ungated:
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New paper with @chiara_vargiu out at IJoC! 🚨 Are uncivil and simplified political messages persuasive? That's not so simple - it also depends on candidate and message evaluation Open access: Replication data:
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Have you ever seen a book that, by its title alone, is a more apt metaphor of academia?
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Ok, Amsterdam... I see your point
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Ragu Against The Machine #RuinABandNameWithOneLetter
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2 years
Prep work for sabbatical visit at Waseda, Tokyo
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Flight attendant: Is there a doctor on the plane? Me: Yes, but I'm not that kind of … Flight attendant: The pilots are debating about democracy and politics in very general terms Me: Sorry, I am no economist
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🚨PhD in Political Communication @UvA_ASCoR ! I and @LindaBos80 are looking for a PhD candidate for our 3-year research project on the supply, demand & consequences of "hostile politics" (negativity, incivility, intolerance) Is it you? Apply by May 25! ➡️
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🚨New paper out at @polcommjournal lead by @philipp_mendoza 🔥🔥 Does negative campaigning backlash more when (better) alternative are available to voters? You bet Open access: Data for replication: @poli_com @Polcomm #Negativity
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Having a RISK boardgame discretely (sic) in the background when being interviewed about geopolitical and strategic military tactics is a bit on the nose - no?
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Lovely (and a bit surreal) to see Dark Politics in the wild, like a real book 💜 @ABCBooksNL
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Polcom hivemind! 🚨 See below the current list of entries (already have authors) for the Encyclopedia of Pol Com 📚 Smth missing? Any new entry, especially on traditionally underrepresented topics, that YOU'd be happy to write? Plz RT for N & diversity @poli_com @ECPR_PolCom
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This remains, by far, one of the best sentences I've ever written. I am surprised it is not cited like a hundred times a day. Minimum. C'mon people, you know the drill (paper with @Luk_O is here: )
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🚨 PEER REVIEW SURVEY ALERT 🚨 We investigate perceptions & practices of peer review in social sciences worldwide The survey is now ** open to all participants ** 🌎🌍🌏 Thoughts about peer review? Take the survey ➡️ Plz retweet for N and diversity 🔥
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SPSS | R Stata | Excel
@fgenovese__
Federica Genovese
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Milano | Turin Rome | Palermo
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This year, for Halloween...
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@IndieWire Blade Runner 2049 is a masterpiece
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🚨New publication with @MaierJuergen in @ElectoralStdies Looking at #Midterms18 we show that @USSenate candidates scoring higher on the #DarkTriad (narcissism, psychopathy, Machiav) are more negative and uncivil on @Twitter #DarkPolitics @poli_com ➡️
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For #ValentinesDay offer your loved one(s) a copy of Dark Politics! 📚🎁 Because nothing says "I love you" better than a book about how psychopathic & narcissistic politicians are threatening democracy Now with 30% off using the code ASFLYQ6 Order here:
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So grateful to @waseda_univ @airohino_waseda for the possibility to spend some weeks in Tokyo. And the view from the office is simply breathtaking
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Pray for me
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Things are easy when you're pig in Japan Oh, when you're pig in Japan
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I just founded a new religion, who wants in?
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@twisteddoodles Adorable! We have been making a map of the kitties we encounter on our walks - will definitely also use your template in the future
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#Federer and I are very similar. Both born in August of 1981 in German-speaking Switzerland, and we both live abroad now. And between the two of us we have won on average 10 Grand Slam titles each - not bad for two quadragénaires
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Wet European Politics
@phylogenomics
Jonathan Eisen
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Mature
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New major European cleavage just dropped
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A simple QCA would show that the real killer is ice
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an eye opener.
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I was lucky to read some great fiction in 2022. I was not able to meet my goal of 40 books (grumble), but out of the 36 I did read there were some real gems A short 🧵 with my #top10books 📚 read in 2022, with hopefully some suggestions for book lovers
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@BenjyOgden Ok, this is fun
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🚨New piece out at Media Psychology @MediaPsychMEP with the awesome @chiaralisavalli TLDR: Cognitive elaboration reinforces the effectiveness of resistance strategies to reject persuasive political information Ungated: Open data:
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