Peer-Reviewed Articles

Christopher A. Bail, Brian Guay, Em Maloney, Aidan Combs, D. Sunshine Hillygus, Friedolin Merhout, Deen Freelon, Alexander Volfovsky (2020). Assessing the Russian Internet Research Agency’s impact on the political attitudes and behaviors of American Twitter users in late 2017. In PNAS.

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Aidan Combs, Jason J. Maldonis, Jie Feng, Zhognan Xu, Paul M. Voyles, Dane Morgan (2019). Fast approximate STEM image simulations from a machine learning model. In Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging.

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In Progress

Estimating ambiguity in cultural meaning

Variance in cultural meaning at the group level is patterned differently than ambiguity in meaning at the individual level.

Aidan Combs

Jan 1, 2022

Influence in anonymous political conversation

Using custom-built mobile chat apps to study how identity, identity labels, and political knowledge affect influence in anonymous conversation about politics.

Aidan Combs, Fatima Alqabandi, Lisa Argyle, Christopher Bail, Andrés Castro Araújo, Devin Cornell, Brian Guay, D. Sunshine Hillygus, Friedolin Merhout, Graham Tierney, Gabriel Varela, Alexander Volfovsky

Jan 1, 2022

Situation definition, polarization, and affect control theory

How do people define labels and assign cultural meaning in interaction? How might these processes be affected by partisanship?

Susan Jacobs, Aidan Combs

Jan 1, 2022

Third order expectations of cultural affective meaning

How do we think everyone else sees our identities? How are these third order expectations related to outcomes like behavior in interaction, stress, and mental and physical health?

Aidan Combs

Jan 1, 2022