📢 New article alert! "Spiral of Silence in Online News Comments" 💬📰 Kim, Jeon & Choi examine how public opinion dynamics unfold in online comments, testing whether the Spiral of Silence manifests in digital discussions. 🔗 Read more:

📢 New article alert! "Loving Life? Loving Science?" 🔬💡 @fuglsang_simon explores how quality of life perceptions shape public attitudes toward science—finding that lower QoL links to less optimism about science’s impact. 🔗 Read more:

📢 New article alert! "The First-Person Effect: A Test of the Reflection Hypothesis" 🧠💡 Moser, Soucek, Galais, Paul, & Gunnesch-Luca examine how people overestimate media effects on others—except when the message promotes a good cause. 🔗 Read more:

📢 New article alert! "Understanding Government Public Opinion: How Conspiracy Mentality and Policy Issue Concerns Shape Government Performance Evaluations" 📊 by @blingblingzhang, Araceli Mateos Díaz & Homero Gil de Zúñiga:

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How does support for extractivism shape environmental concerns in Bolivia? 🇧🇴 This study by Carmen Rosa Marull Maita & Bettina Schorr dives into the Global South perspective, addressing gaps in research often focused on the Global North:

"News Surveillance and Democracy: The Effect of News Negativity and Political Trust on Intentional News Avoidance" by Manuel Goyanes and Márton Bene explores how negativity and political trust drive news avoidance.

🚨 New research alert! 🚨 Melike Saraç & Brady West explore how showcards in face-to-face surveys improve data quality by reducing item-missing responses and middle-point selection. Evidence from the European Social Survey 👉

📢 New Article Alert! How does income inequality shape public demand for redistribution in Europe?@SchmidtCatran; @velev_valentin 🌍 Read more:

📱🗳️ New Study! "Political Meme Use Can Lead to Political Intolerance: Evidence from a Panel Study" @maxud_balti presents evidence from Hong Kong, showing how political memes drive intolerance, with political interest moderating this effect.

🌍⚔️ New Research! "Anxious But Hesitant to Act: The Impact of Concurrent Priming of the Climate Crisis and the War in Ukraine on Public Support"@JakobDreyer examines how priming the climate crisis and the war in Ukraine together affects public opinion.

🧐 New Research! "Sense or Sensibility? Netizens’ Choice of Social Media Comments in an Authoritarian Regime" from Stan Hok-Wui Wong and Jiachen Liang shows that Chinese netizens favor emotional comments that challenge official narratives. Discover more:

🌎 New Study "The Roles of Media Platforms, Political Orientation, and Climate Change Belief in Pro-Environmental Behaviors" from Seo Yoon Lee and others compares how media exposure shapes climate change beliefs and actions in the U.S. and South Korea:

🚨"The Blame Game: The Role of Media Environments and Political Discussion in Americans’ Attribution of Blame for Interparty Hostility". Find out in this new paper from Brianna Zichettella, Brian E. Weeks and Ariel Hasell:

🚨🚨 Exciting news! Research by @DrBoulianne on perceptions and concerns regarding misinformation on Facebook is now available. Check it out here:

New study "Voters Share Polls That Say What They Want to Hear: Experimental Evidence From Spain and the USA" by @aleferna_ and @m_barnfield. Read it today

New study "The Relationship Between Political Entertainment Media Use and Political Efficacy: A Comparative Study in 18 Countries" by Christian Schemer and others. Read it today

New study "The Geopolitics of Disinformation: Worldviews, Media Consumption and the Adoption of Global Strategic Disinformation Narratives" by @DMadrid_M. Read it today

New article from Wei Ran and others on inter-society differences in public responses to their government’s anti-pandemic policies of zero-COVID strategy in Beijing, Taipei, and Singapore. Read it today.