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Americans disagree on a lot. AI regulation isn't one of them. In our latest report deep dive, Tyler Bench and Ben Leff unpack what bipartisan agreement on AI means for candidates, and why we're likely just scratching the surface of what AI regulation will look like. Full video and report linked in comments.

Read the full papers here: "Voter Fraud, Voter ID, and Legitimacy" (American Politics Research): doi.org/10.1177/153267… "Beyond Credibility: How News Topic and Cognitive Processing Shape Responses to AI-Authored Journalism" (Journalism Studies): doi.org/10.1080/146167… "Ideological differences in moral concern reflect circle expansion, not inversion" (Political Psychology): doi.org/10.1111/pops.7… "The Policy Feedback Effects of State Assistance: Did Small Business Bailouts Increase Support for Public Aid Programs?" (Journal of Experimental Political Science): doi.org/10.1017/XPS.20…

@s_soroka @UCLA Read the full study here: doi.org/10.1080/146167…

“We see minimal to basically no impact on the whole in switching the author to a computer. That’s pretty disconcerting.” @s_soroka of @UCLA on his student Jun Luo's paper “Beyond Credibility: How News Topic and Cognitive Processing Shape Responses to AI-Authored Journalism.”

@law_fiore @LianeLeeYoung @SSyropoulos @Journal_PoPs Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1111/pops.7…

Congratulations to @law_fiore, Seoyeon Bae, @LianeLeeYoung, and @SSyropoulos on a new article in @Journal_PoPs, published with Verasight survey data. "Ideological differences in moral concern reflect circle expansion, not inversion" tests a widely repeated claim: that liberals prioritize distant strangers over their own communities. Across three studies, ingroups remain the top priority across the political spectrum; liberals simply reallocate more toward distant categories than conservatives do. The authors' findings challenge claims of moral inversion and clarify that liberal moral universalism reflects circle expansion, not reversal in the ordering of concern.

@namalhotra @StanfordGSB @JEPS_ed Read the full article here: doi.org/10.1017/XPS.20…

Congratulations to @namalhotra and Saikun Shi of @StanfordGSB on a new article in @JEPS_ed, published with Verasight survey data. "The Policy Feedback Effects of State Assistance: Did Small Business Bailouts Increase Support for Public Aid Programs?" examines whether exposure to government assistance can generate positive policy feedback effects among constituencies not traditionally supportive of the welfare state. Focusing on the U.S. Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a small business bailout enacted during the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors study how making government assistance salient affects attitudes toward social assistance programs among a typically Republican-leaning and relatively affluent group. Leveraging a bespoke survey of verified program recipients and an embedded experimental manipulation, the authors found that reminding PPP recipients of program participation increases support for government spending on healthcare, nutritional assistance, and unemployment benefits by an average of 6.9 percentage points.

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Link to full survey results: #key-takeaways" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">reports.verasight.io/reports/june-2…

Our latest AI regulation survey shows strong, bipartisan support for Bernie Sanders' proposal that would require companies to transfer 50% of their stock to a fund owned by the American public. Learn more from our conversation with CNBC about the growing regulatory risk to the AI industry.

Introducing four new research papers published with Verasight data: “Voter Fraud, Voter ID, and Legitimacy” in @apr_journal by Christian Fong “Beyond Credibility: How News Topic and Cognitive Processing Shape Responses to AI-Authored Journalism” in @journstudies by Jun Luo “Ideological differences in moral concern reflect circle expansion, not inversion” in @Journal_PoPs by @law_fiore, Seoyeon Bae, @LianeLeeYoung, and @SSyropoulos “The Policy Feedback Effects of State Assistance: Did Small Business Bailouts Increase Support for Public Aid Programs?” in @JEPS_ed by @namalhotra and Saikun Shi Congratulations to all the authors on their new publications!

Get to know the researchers who submitted questions to our 2026 @BehavioralMed Omnibus survey. Then, see how our representative panel of 300,000+ Americans responded. Featuring: Emma Brett, Leilani Feliciano, Adati Tarfa, Gabriella Bann, Weiqi Chen, and Gina Besenyi.

As Anthropic and the U.S. government battled over the safety of Claude Fable, Verasight fielded a survey to find out where the American public stands. The results show that Americans from both parties overwhelmingly support AI regulation.

New Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight_data poll: - Only 18% think U.S. achieved its goals in Iran - Trump's approval flirts with historic low at 37% - Plurality says Trump admin. has benefited the wealthy over everyday Americans - and more! Free to read: gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-06-24-j…

New in American Politics Research, from Christian Fong (@UMich): even when voter fraud is too rare to change who wins, it still undermines the winner's legitimacy. doi.org/10.1177/153267…

@Newsweek featured Verasight polling on how Americans see Pope Leo XIV. In our poll of 2,000 U.S. adults, 48% view the pope favorably - rising to 60% among Catholics. Full article in the reply.

Research opportunities can appear in unexpected places. Learn how a visit to the @verasight_data booth at #MPSA2026 led to nationally representative survey data—and how it could help your research too. Read the latest MPSA blog by @JamesSteur: mpsanet.org/an-exciting-op…