Selected recent writing or coverage (interviews or cited research) in news outlets and blogs:
- Why the news is so negative — and what we can do about it, Vox
- Why Do We Doomscroll?, Why Do We Do That Podcast, BBC Radio 4
- The Great Delusion Behind Twitter, Ezra Klien, New York Times
- Does the media convey accurate information about what policymakers do?, Center for Political Studies blog
- How Does the Public Move Right When Policy Moves Left?, The Science of Politics Podcast
- Just How Accurate Are American News Media?, MediaWell (Social Science Research Council)
- Media Coverage Isn’t as Bad as You Might Think, fifteeneightyfour (Cambridge University Press blog)
- COVID safety precautions are as important as ever. Here’s how to persuade resisters, USA Today, Detroit Free Press, Arizona Republic, Indianapolis Star
- Can dairy adapt to climate change? BBC News
- Real-time analysis shows that the first debate shifted attitudes among Twitter users towards Biden and the second solidified them, LSE USAPP Blog
- Biden eliminated attack ads during Trump’s hospital stay. Trump’s campaign saw no need for a softer tone, CBS News
- Personality and Sheltering-in-Place During the Pandemic, Psychology Today
- Fed Up with Endless Gloom, Social-Media Users Are Pulling Back, Newsweek
- 2020 Election coverage that is part of ‘The Breakthrough’ project with CNN, SSRS, and colleagues at Michigan and Georgetown:
- Hunger for ‘good news’ grows as pandemic woes deepen, RFI, and Al Jazeera
- Why does so much news seem negative? Human attention may be to blame, LA Times
- For COVID news, always read beyond the scary headline, Psychology Today
- Worldwide, humans are more responsive to negative news, study suggests, MinnPost
- You Might Not Really Be As Into All This Negative News As You Seem, NPR/WBUR
- Brasileiros prestam mais atenção em notícias negativas, mostra estudo, BBC Brasil
- Negative news evokes stronger psychophysiological reactions than positive news, PsyPost
- Polarization of climate change news is no hoax, Michigan News
- Media Coverage Doesn’t Actually Determine Public Opinion On The Economy, FiveThirtyEight
- Accuracy in Reporting on Public Policy, CPS Blog
- Smartphone-size screens make it harder to pay attention to and understand news stories, LSE Impact Blog
- Screen size matters: Consumers less attentive to news content on small screens, Michigan News
- How your phone’s screen changes the way you react to the news, Inverse
- The Moon landing reminds us of the importance of good news, New Statesman
- The Elusive Media Bump for (Most) Presidential Candidates, Wall Street Journal
- This fallacy helps explain why Republicans have pursued such unpopular policies, Washington Post
- Divided by Culture: Partisan Imagery and Political Evaluations, CPS blog.
- How President Trump helped the media lose the 2018 midterm elections, LSE USAPP
- Work on the 2016 presidential election, as part of the electiondynamics.org project, is used in articles on CNN State, CNN and HuffPo . A mid-campaign talk is available on video from the CPS here; and the broader project is here.
- Media obsession with a bullshit email scandal helped Trump to the White House, Vox
- What psychology reveals about the Brexit vote, Maclean’s
- Remember that study saying America is an oligarchy? 3 rebuttals say it’s wrong, Vox
- Why do we pay more attention to negative news than to positive news?, LSE Politics & Policy
- The media and public opinion react to changes in economic conditions, not the state of the economy in general, LSE USAPP.
- It’s (Change in) the (Future) Economy, Stupid, AJPS blog.
- Psychology: Why bad news dominates the headlines, BBC.
- We’re Really Not So Negative, CUP / fifteeneightyfour.
- Tired of ‘negative’ news? Then, why do we prefer it? Houston Chronicl
- Why Is It So Cool to Be Gloomy? Wall Street Journal
- Does public broadcasting increase current affairs knowledge?, Washington Post / The Monkey Cage
- Why Canadians and Americans will never agree on health care, Vox
- Public wants bad political news, study finds, Toronto Star.
- Public broadcasting creates informed citizens – but only if we invest in it, Globe and Mail.