Lea Pradella

🚨Very excited to share that my first solo publication "Testing the social pressure hypothesis: Does in-party social pressure reduce out-party empathy?" is out in @PNASNexus 🚨 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnasne… Here’s what I find 🧵1/6

🆕 Updated Working Paper 🚨 Can tourism drive economicgrowth in advanced economies? I investigate the case of Italy Tourism in Industrialized Countries: Catalyst for Growth or Economic Burden? Full #paper below ⬇️ 🧵 [1/7] #EconTwitter #Tourism #EconomicGrowth #Italy

Zehntausende Menschen wollen im Laufe des Tages in Gießen demonstrieren und die Gründung einer AfD-Jugendorganisation verhindern. Erste Straßen sind dicht. Unser Liveblog trib.al/G2vudsX

Just published on APSR First View: "Legitimize or Delegitimize? Mainstream Party Strategy toward (Former) Pariah Parties and How Voters Respond" by Valentin Daur (@ValentinDaur). cambridge.org/core/journals/…

Does childhood exposure to coethnics impede or promote the acquisition of citizenship? In a new @PNASNews article, I show that the modest presence of coethnics in school increases migrant children’s probability of getting 🇩🇰citizenship later in life🧵1/15 pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Join Our Team! 🚨 We’re hiring 2 Postdocs for the new Advertising Democracy project at Aarhus University. We’re looking for researchers who are passionate about advertisements & citizens’ democratic values in Western democracies. Feel free to share!👇🏾 bss.au.dk/en/about-aarhu…

PNAS Nexus presents its inaugural Special Feature: An engaging groundbreaking 15-article collection examining political polarization and trust through multidisciplinary lenses. Discover how this societal challenge affects individuals and communities. ow.ly/ZmBe50U7TB8

@aaronrkaufman Haha! It was a pleasure reading and commenting on your paper, looking forward to following your super exciting work!

I've never been skewered so brutally by a discussant before; 10/10, highly recommended. Thanks @LeaPradella!

Last week the fourth edition of the Nordic Political Behavior Workshop took place in Aarhus. Two intense days of excellent papers and discussions. Big thanks to all the participants and not least to @Carlsbergfondet for generously supporting the workshop.

🚨 Just out in @PNASNews 🚨 Combining administrative registers and individual Twitter behavior among Danes, we show that multiple offline indicators predict online hostility: Having many more criminal verdicts increase the likelihood of being hostile online. But - against common stereotypes of online haters - so does having high school grades when you grew up. The reason: Hostility is about politics and those from an affluent background are much more likely to tweet about politics. All in all, hostility is not just about algorithms and the features of online discussions. Individual offline dispositions matter too. Thank you for another great collaboration to @stighebbelstrup and @boralexander1!

@UptonOrwell @PNASNexus Thank you! Such an important paper and useful guide when running survey experiments!

What a delight to see great researchers (and in great outlets!) taking my null results checklist seriously & using it in their work. Truly, it means a lot to me! 🙏 Thank you @LeaPradella and many congrats on your awesome @PNASNexus publication! 🥳

Thank you @UptonOrwell for writing this important paper and providing such a useful checklist for null results! In my opinion a must read and must take into account when designing and analyzing survey experiments!

💥@PNASNexus Special Feature: Polarization & Trust💥 In 2023, we hosted a workshop (co-organized with @DG_Rand @ylelkes @kati_kish) at @MIT. As a result, @MicheleJGelfand, Erik Kimbrough & I led a Special Feature at Nexus comprised of those talks. Short🧵with all contributions:

@alessandro_nai @Suthan_1607 @PNASNexus Thank you, Alessandro!

@LeaPradella @Suthan_1607 @PNASNexus Looks fantastic (and extremely topical) - congrats!

🚨Very excited to share that my first solo publication "Testing the social pressure hypothesis: Does in-party social pressure reduce out-party empathy?" is out in @PNASNexus 🚨 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/pnasne… Here’s what I find 🧵1/6

@emily_kubin Thanks Emily!!

@LeaPradella Love this! Amazing work Lea!!!

@NatanSki @PNASNexus Thanks Natan!!

@LeaPradella @PNASNexus Congrats Lea! So interesting!

@WEgendal @PNASNexus Thanks William!

@LeaPradella @PNASNexus Big congrats Lea!

These findings have important implications: partisans can resist in-party pressure. Efforts to foster empathy across political divides should leverage this ability to push back against affective polarization. 6/6

Why? Exploratory analyses suggest that anticipating disapproval by the in-party for empathizing with out-partisans makes partisans disappointed in their party. It seems as if partisans try to compensate for the lack of empathy of their in-party. 5/6