Assistant Professor of Political Science at BYU Research political conversations and persuasion. Political psychology and computational social science.
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ALT Religious Freedom in the City Pool: Gender Segregation, Partisanship, and the Construction of Symbolic Boundaries
ALT Treated conversation flow: Respondents write messages unimpeded until one partner receives a rephrasing prompt for the first message longer than four words, and every other conversational turn thereafter. The chat assistant intercepts the treated user’s message, using GPT-3 to propose evidence-based alternative phrasings, while retaining the semantic content. It suggests three randomly ordered alternatives to the author of the message and presents the opportunity to accept or edit any of these rephrasing suggestions or send their original message. Their choice is sent to their partner and the conversation continues.
ALT Analysis of semantic content of messages. Panel (A) presents a visualization of the topical distribution of messages sent on the platform. Each point is the semantic embedding of a message; points that are close to each other represent messages that are semantically similar. Messages are clustered with k-means, and clusters are automatically labeled by GPT-4
ALT Conversational quality Panel (A) and democratic reciprocity Panel (B) subgroup means and confidence intervals. Higher values signify greater quality/support.
