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Patrick Liu

@patrickpliu.bsky.social
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Columbia Political Science | PhD Candidate

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Patrick Liu @patrickpliu.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The standout result: ads tailored to a voter’s personally important issue increased candidate support by ~10 percentage points relative to the pre-tested ad. In our conjoint, that equates to roughly one-fourth of the gap in support for co-partisans vs out-partisans.
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Patrick Liu @patrickpliu.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
We compared LLM-generated audio campaign ads tailored to demographics, Big Five traits, or self-identified top issues in a conjoint. Demographic and personality tailoring did little against a pre-tested cost-of-living message. Fully tailored personality ads actually did worse.
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Patrick Liu @patrickpliu.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New paper w/ @yamilrvelez.bsky.social! A lot of great research on political microtargeting discounts personalization: tailored ads (using AI or not) rarely beat a single-best message. We define two types of microtargeting, clarify when tailoring matters, & showcase a novel audio-based design.
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Patrick Liu @patrickpliu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Ex: Respondent said they care about public infrastructure. In the same wave, they held the following convo with an AI chatbot. After GPT synthesized a summary attitude, focal belief, and distal belief, they saw treatment/placebo text and answered pre- and post-treatment Qs.
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Patrick Liu @patrickpliu.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🧵 Why do facts often change beliefs but not attitudes? In a new WP with @yamilrvelez.bsky.social and @scottclifford.bsky.social, we caution against interpreting this as rigidity or motivated reasoning. Often, the beliefs *relevant* to people’s attitudes are not what researchers expect.
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