recent research

From Kevin Lewis' April picks:

• Want to be more effective on the soapbox? Be abstract with your followers and concrete with those who may be more skeptical. (Michella Menegatti and friend)
• For DC interns, polarized workplaces breeds polarization. (David Jones)
• It takes more than just homophily (hanging out with people like ourselves) to breed partisanship: we need a dose of confirmation bias too. (Pranav Dandekar and friends)
• Twittering ourselves into political silos. (Itai Himmelboim and friends)
• The extreme partisanship in Congress is said to not reflect the public's views - but it may reflect the part of the public that pays attention to Congress. (Benjamin Lauderdale)
• People prefer doing meaningful work - even on mTurk. (Dana Chandler and friend)
• Online social mobilization's limits explored. (Alex Rutherford and friends)
• The Wikipedia magic formula for crowdsourcing may be losing its magic. (Aaron Halfaker and friends)
• A mini experiment showing what we all kinda know: playing as part of a team makes us generally more cooperative with our teammates. (Tobias Greitemeyer and friend)
• You are what you like. (Mickal Kosinski and friends)
• The great experiment in grading NYC kitchen cleanliness - comes up short. (Daniel Ho)