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Allison Archer

@allisonarcher.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at the University of Houston researching media and politics. allisonarcher.com

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APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The APSA Political Communication section is accepting nominations for its annual awards. Please send nominations directly to the chair of each committee. 🔎 More details on awards, committee, and eligibility criteria: politicalcommunication.org/awards/
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Allison Archer @allisonarcher.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
I'm chairing the Public Opinion division this year -- please consider submitting your proposals to PO!
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Have you submitted your #APSA2026 Annual Meeting proposals? Join us for the 122nd APSA Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Boston, September 3–6, exploring the conference theme, “Democracy Under Threat: How to Understand, Protect, and Rebuild.” Deadline: 1/14 Submit your proposals now: buff.ly/PYyBksl
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Mike Wagner @prowag.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Check out our new article looking at who wanted to quit Twitter and who decided to wait and see after ownership of the platform changed hands.
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Public Opinion Quarterly - POQ @poqjournal.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Elite rhetoric is instrumental in shaping views of partisan media outlets. In POQ, Archer examines the impact of Trump's rhetoric on Fox News. Attacks on Fox News by Trump led to members of both parties viewing Fox News as less conservative. Read more: doi.org/10.1093/poq/...
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Michał Gulczyński @gulczynski.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Many studies attribute the success of right-wing parties to sexism. What is sexism? How is it measured? How does it influence elections? My systematic review of studies on sexism as a predictor of political behavior and attitudes is about to appear in @poqjournal.bsky.social! 1/7
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APSA Law & Courts Section @lawcourtsapsa.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
🔎 Job Market Spotlight: Meet Lucia Lopez, Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Houston and licensed attorney. Her research explores access to justice, legitimacy of state legal institutions and social policy. Learn more: www.lucia-lopez.com
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Jason P. Casellas @jpcasellas.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in Comparative Politics (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply. careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista... #psjobs #psjminfo
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Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - Comparative Politics - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Political Science Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for an Assistant, Associate, ...
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Jason P. Casellas @jpcasellas.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
@houstonpolsci.bsky.social is hiring in American Political Thought (open rank). Check out the link below for more details and to apply. #psjobs #poliscijobs careers.uh.edu/jobs/assista...
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Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor - American Political Thought - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Political Science Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for an open rank position of ...
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Jason P. Casellas @jpcasellas.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
We are hiring! @houstonpolsci.bsky.social is seeking applicants for endowed Aspire professorship in IR. See link for more details.
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Professor - Aspire Institute for Global Engagement Endowed Professor - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Political Science Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Political Science at the University of Houston invites applications for tenured Professor for the...
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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
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Tanika Raychaudhuri @tanikar.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Excited to share that my first book, The Social Roots of Asian American Partisanship, is available online on Oxford Academic! It uses surveys, experiments, and interviews to explore how Asian Americans learn about politics and develop partisan views. It will be published in print this October.
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Stine Eckert @stineeckert.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
The owner of the #LATimes, Patrick Soon-Shiong, said he would take the newspaper public in the next year. The newspaper laid off more than 20 percent of its newsroom staff past year. #journalismmatters #USA www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/b...
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L.A. Times Owner Says He Will Take Newspaper Public in Next Year
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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Fascinating study by @pewresearch.org on how Americans think about news. For example, Americans want "unbiased" news but also choose sources aligned to their political leanings. We need better education on what journalism really is. @shannimcg.bsky.social www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2...
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What Is News?
As people are exposed to more information from more sources than ever before, how they define and feel about “news” has become less clear-cut. Pew Research Center.
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APSA @apsa.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Tanika Raychaudhuri and Michael Kistner recently published “Immigration and Political Incorporation: Asian American Representation in State Legislatures” in State Politics and Policy Quarterly. buff.ly/0F0C19G #APPIHeritageMonth #APIDA
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Allison Archer @allisonarcher.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Featuring my work with Erik Peterson on elite attacks on local news and the fragility of the local news trust advantage. Now open access!
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Political Analysis @polanalysis.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Currently in FirstView: In “The Limits (and Strengths) of Single-Topic Experiments,” @scottclifford.bsky.social & @carlislerainey.bsky.social examine the generalizability of single-topic studies, focusing on how often confidence intervals capture treatment effects from a larger population of studies
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Need a break from watching the stock market tumble? Our new article on the persistence of role model effects into adulthood is out now in @polbehavior.bsky.social! We are the first, to our knowledge, to show such effects. doi.org/10.1007/s111...
Screenshot for the title page of an article entited "Nevertheless, Role Models Persisted: Girls Exposed to Women Politicians More Likely to Vote as Adults," by Christina Wolbrecht and David E. Campbell, published in the journal Political Behavior.
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Joshua P. Darr @joshuadarr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Our new paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social: Americans have trusted local media more than national since the mid-1990s. We show that roughly *half* of that is due to the "local trust heuristic" - people trust news that seems local, whether real or fake. doi.org/10.1111/ajps...
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Ross Dahlke @rossdahlke.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Great in-depth examination of news media, bias, and information spread, by @hanshanley.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.48550/arX...
Tracking the Takes and Trajectories of English-Language News Narratives across Trustworthy and Worrisome Websites
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Martin Naunov @naunovmartin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Excited to share that my paper on citizen-to-citizen persuasion, co-authored with Carlos Rueda-Cañòn and @tjryan02.bsky.social, was just accepted at the Journal of Politics @thejop.bsky.social . Link: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... 🧵
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
New report shows how 'flooding' the web with disinformation and propaganda affects AI models. Deliberately infiltrating AI chatbots, by flooding search results and web crawlers with pro-Kremlin falsehoods, affects the AI models on current topics. www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-fun...
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A well-funded Moscow-based global ‘news’ network has infected Western artificial intelligence tools worldwide with Russian propaganda
An audit found that the 10 leading generative AI tools advanced Moscow’s disinformation goals by repeating false claims from the pro-Kremlin Pravda network 33 percent of the time
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Nick Bednar @nicholasbednar.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Recent post from @adambonica.bsky.social showing a statistical relationship between agency ideology (Richardson, Clinton, Lewis scores) and the likelihood of mass layoffs. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-doge-p...
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The DOGE Purge: Empirical Evidence of Politically Motivated Firings
And what it means for American Democracy
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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 28/02/2025
More than 75,000 digital subscribers to The Washington Post have cancelled since @washingtonpost.com owner Jeff Bezos announced he would radically overhaul its opinion pages. @npr.org @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/02/28/n...
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Bezos' changes at 'Washington Post' lead to mass subscription cancellations — again
Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos's changes to the opinion pages have led subscribers to cancel in droves. It's the third wave of mass cancellations at the Post in just a few months.
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Matt Graham @mattgraham.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
When gauging public reactions to the latest controversy, it's important not to conduct or share misleading polls. Our new paper in Public Opinion Quarterly is a template for how to (and how not to) poll about the effect of political developments. Gift link: academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...
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Parker Bach @parkerbach.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
🗣️New Communication Theory article! With @carolynschmitt.bsky.social and @shannimcg.bsky.social Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, we explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. 1/🧵 bit.ly/StratAm
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Jeremy Littau @jeremylittau.com · 07/02/2025
I teach NYT v. Sullivan in my intro class because it's important for them to know this ruling is what gives them the right to broadly criticize public officials without worrying about being harassed via lawsuit by the rich and powerful. It would be devastating to free speech to overturn Sullivan.
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Presidential Authority and the Legitimation of Far-Right News in IJPP w/ @allisonarcher.bsky.social @carolynschmitt.bsky.social & @heesoojang.bsky.social
A screenshot of the paper, titled in skeet. Abstract reads, “What position do far-right news outlets occupy in contemporary U.S. politics,
and how did Trump use the power of the presidency to contribute to their rise
among Republican legislators and mainstream American media? We posit that Trump’s position as president, in conjunction with his populist communication style that favored far-right outlets, contributed to the legitimation of such outlets. We
first analyze Trump’s tweets during his presidency (January 2017–January 2021) mentioning three far-right outlets (One America News Network, Newsmax, and Breitbart), conceptualizing these messages as authority signals that symbolically
lend legitimacy to the media sources. We then provide rich descriptive information regarding subsequent mentions of the far-right outlets in four national mainstream newspapers as well as appearances by GOP (Republican) members of Congress in the far-right outlets. We find significant and positive correlations between Trump’s
tweets and mainstream media coverage of One America News Network (OANN)
and Newsmax, and significant and positive correlations between Trump’s tweets and GOP Congressional interviews on OANN and Newsmax. Together, these results represent an example of presidential authority signals that bolster far-right outlets
and aid in their legitimization among legislators and the mainstream press. The findings shed light on the role of political leaders in the recent mainstreaming of the far-right across many democratic countries.
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Shannon McGregor, PhD @shannimcg.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
We studied this shift, which started during the first Trump administration. Far-right outlets became legitimized thru GOP officials granting access, as well as mainstream news coverage of these outlets. #openaccess here journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1...
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 14/01/2025
Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵 In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians. We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties. with @julianachueri.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/1940...
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Damon Kiesow @kiesow.net · 08/01/2025
Some discussion of the state of and collaborations in local news research featuring @benjamintoff.bsky.social and the @localnewsimpact.bsky.social (localnewsimpact.org) by Sophie Culpepper @niemanlab.org www.niemanlab.org/2025/01/acad...
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Academics team up to address the biggest challenges in local news research
“A lot of people assume that there is some list somewhere of all the local news outlets in particular places. And that just doesn’t exist.”
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
What happened to national news could happen to local news - as we've seen again and again, elite attacks are the most important factor undermining media trust www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Francesca Tripodi @ftripodi.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
After the first election of Trump I conducted a yearlong ethnographic study of Trump supporters. I wanted to understand how they see the world and how information systems shaped their understanding of truth. I walked away with seven core findings
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Allison Archer @allisonarcher.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
An in-depth look at GOP attacks on local news, featuring some of my work with Erik Peterson. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... The paper with Erik (forthcoming at PS) is here: allisonarcher.com/wp-content/u...
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Opinion | How much abuse can a local newspaper reporter take?
Republicans claim Tom Lisi’s reporting is lies to promote a liberal agenda. How should he respond?
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Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
"This new restriction, which appears to apply only to matters involving Trump and not to other officials or issues, has effectively killed or indefinitely delayed multiple editorials that have been written and edited but remain unpublished," the memo from Opinion staffers said.
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Dawn Teele @teele.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
HUGE AMAZING news. Please share!!! EGEN, the Empirical Study of Gender Research Network, announces its 2025 prize competition, up to $5000, for cutting edge research on gender and politics. Due Feb 1, 2025 www.egenpolisci.org #gendersky #polisky @egenpolisci.bsky.social @mirya.bsky.social
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EGEN
The Empirical Study of Gender (EGEN) Working Group
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Katie Robertson @katierobertson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Scoop: Los Angeles Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong killed an editorial that was critical of Trump's Cabinet picks, weeks after he blocked a planned endorsement of Kamala Harris by the LAT editorial board www.nytimes.com/2024/12/12/b...
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Los Angeles Times Owner Wades Deeper Into Opinion Section
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong’s public comments and actions, including recently blocking an editorial weighing in on President-elect Trump’s cabinet picks, have concerned many staff members.
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Wrote a big hot take for Nieman’s 2025 predictions & managed to shoehorn in a lot of pet peeves while using “epistemic” sparingly www.niemanlab.org/2024/12/the-...
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The mainstream media will lose its last grip on relevancy
"The gap between mainstream media readers, people who get most of their news through influencers or partisan social media, and people who barely think about news at all will create a fundamental schis...
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Joshua P. Darr @joshuadarr.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Our new book, Storefront Campaigning, is out *today* and FREE to download until 12/12! doi.org/10.1017/9781... Using original data on field office locations, Sean Whyard and I show where offices are placed - and why they matter in presidential campaigns. (1/x)
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Storefront Campaigning
Cambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - Storefront Campaigning
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Ready for the illiberal playbook?No @curdknupfer.bsky.social @sjjphd.bsky.social @dkreiss.bsky.social: "This tactic is insidious; it uses liberalism’s own positions against itself, such as demanding a right to free speech and tolerance to promote illiberal ideas" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Political Communication Research is Unprepared for the Far Right
In this introductory piece to a special issue of the Forum, we explore the inadequacies of the field of political communication in addressing the rising threats posed by illiberalism and the far ri...
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Alex Badas @alexbadas.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
My article "Measuring Ideological Polarization on the Circuit Courts of Appeals 1953-2022" is now up at Journal of Law and Courts. doi.org/10.1017/jlc....
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Measuring Ideological Polarization on the Circuit Courts of Appeals 1953-2022 | Journal of Law and Courts | Cambridge Core
Measuring Ideological Polarization on the Circuit Courts of Appeals 1953-2022
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Alex Badas @alexbadas.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My article "The Role of Judge Gender And Ideology in Hiring The Role of Judge Gender and Ideology in Hiring Female Law Clerks," co-authored with Bailey Sanders and Katelyn Stauffer, is now online at the Journal of Law and Courts. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Role of Judge Gender and Ideology in Hiring Female Law Clerks | Journal of Law and Courts | Cambridge Core
The Role of Judge Gender and Ideology in Hiring Female Law Clerks
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Meredith Conroy @meredithconroy.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
ICYMI, I wrote about the gender gap in 2024 exit polls. Overall the gender gap wasn't record breaking, but there is a lot under the surface that shouldn't be ignored. E.g. young men and women are living in different worlds online, to major consequence. Check it out: abcnews.go.com/538/gender-g...
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What the gender gap tells us about Trump's win
Donald Trump's appeals to young men and men of color in the 2024 election campaign may have paid off.
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Efrén Pérez @efrenpolipsy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Happy to share a new collaborative paper on the conceptual and empirical distinction between PoC solidarity and PoC identity, with #SethGoldman, #YuenHuo, #TatisheNteta, and #LindaTropp. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Are solidarity and identification as people of color distinct? Validating new measures across Asian, Black, Latino, and Multiracial Americans
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Yamil Ricardo Velez @yamilrvelez.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
🚨 How should we design surveys to capture opinion in fast-changing contexts like elections or within hard-to-reach communities? 🚨 My paper, conditionally accepted at Political Analysis, develops a method that leverages LLMs and adaptive algorithms to construct surveys that evolve with user input.
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Amanda Sahar d’Urso @asdurso.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
REP Starter Pack go.bsky.app/GxR7Bkf
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Right-wing media is like improv theater, influencers on stage, performing roles based on a set of loose rules, following a loose script, collaborating towards a shared goal, doing call outs/backs w/ a shared audience who is part of the show, cheering & nudging them as the show unfolds.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 10/11/2024
Here's a political psychology starter pack. For scholars of public opinion and persuasion in the realm of politics. bsky.app/starter-pack...
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