Polarization Research Lab

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Research and public resources monitoring the state of democracy. Founder/Director @seanjwestwood and co-director @ylelkes.

Lebanon, New Hampshire

americaspoliticalpulse.com

Joined March 2023

Polarization Research Lab
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Jul 20
New in @PNASNews: Do legal atrocity labels ("genocide," "war crimes," "crimes against humanity," "ethnic cleansing") shift public opinion? We tested this across 5 real conflicts and outcomes. We find average effects of labels are close to zero. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
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May 18
How common is political advocacy from the pulpit? We find it is both more common and more geographically dispersed than previously understood. The American pulpit now functions as a significant channel for partisan base mobilization.
pnas.org
Systemic electioneering from the evangelical pulpit: Evidence from a computational analysis | PNAS
Religious institutions’ engagement in prohibited electoral advocacy is a growing concern for democratic governance. In the United States, such mobi...
Polarization Research Lab
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Apr 28
PRL's Sean Westwood interviewed in the NYT about political violence, Americans' support for political violence, and how the fear of violence can be exploited. PRL has continuously tracked support for partisan violence for the past 4 years.
Is the U.S. in a Politically Violent Age? What the Data and History Say (Gift Article)
From nytimes.com
Polarization Research Lab
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Apr 24
Hear from PRL's Sean Westwood about his Cozzarelli Prize-winning paper: The Potential Threat of AI to Online Survey Research
The Potential Threat of AI to Online Survey Research
From youtube.com
Polarization Research Lab
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Apr 17
PRL's Sean Westwood won the Cozzarelli Prize for his work on LLMs in survey research!
PNAS Nexus
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Apr 16
Join us in celebrating the 2025 Cozzarelli Prize Class V: Behavioral and Social Sciences winning paper, “The potential existential threat of large language models to online survey research.” Read the article here: ow.ly/ZVO050YKxZG