recent research

From the great aggregator Kevin Lewis:

• Maybe over-confidence has nothing to do with self-esteem and confidence; maybe it's all about looking good. (Cameron Anderson)
• Editorial opinion leaders: more like government opinion followers. (Philip Habel)
• Political activists as thrill seekers. (Cindy Kam)
• Tracking down influentials in a social network. (Sinan Aral)
• Online politicos: more politically active in real life, but not more politically savvy. (Meredith Conroy)
• Want to start a video meme? Have a popular person seed it. (Hema Yoganarasimham.
• Jury deliberations: a little reasoned compromise and a little peer pressure. (Michelle Baddeley)
• Social conformity: broken down neural response by neural response. (Anna Shestakova)
• One way to dampen the influence of interest groups: get us all voting on the same day. (Sarah Anzia)
• Want to get your political message across? Obscure the messenger. (Christopher Weber)
• Presidential speeches are not total wastes of time - yet. (Amnon Cavari)
• Laws aimed at voter turn-out: restrictive laws tend to work; expansive laws not so much. (Melanie Springer)
• Independents may like to think they're independent thinkers, but their partisan leanings suggest otherwise. (Carlee Hawkins)
• The ambiguous effects of public funding in state elections. (Michael Brogan)
• Get-Out-The-Vote emails from independent groups have been shown to not work so well - but when GOTV emails come from government agencies it's a different story. (Neil Malhotra)
• A new study overturns previous research that suggested that once we vote for a party we tend to like that party even more. (Mikael Elinder)