Ozan Kuru
Asst Prof, National University of Singapore
Bio: discovery.nus.edu.sg/18898-ozan-kuru
Google Scholar: scholar.google.com/citations?user=T6KR…
Research Gate: researchgate.net/profile/Ozan-Kuru
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- New study on communicative dynamics in relative risk scenarios in health decision making, forthcoming in Health Communication, Yuanyuan Wu & Ozan Kuru
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- Reposted by Ozan KuruCharacteristically thoughtful discussion of a known snag of survey research -- people who care a lot about politics are more likely to take political polls -- and what we might be able to do to address that (As noted, I think this is such a fun experiment)
- Hello super friends. There is a new @crosstabspodcast.com It features a cool experiment in talking to non-political voters by @kabirkhanna.bsky.social at @cbsnews.com He's super smart. You should listen to him. Hey, did you know it's an election year?? Again??! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...
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- Reposted by Ozan KuruI wrote about our recent paper for @uk.theconversation.com "...it does mean that judging these responses without understanding their cultural roots risks blaming individuals for navigating systems that were never designed to protect them." theconversation.com/why-some-peo...
- Reposted by Ozan KuruHow does information on public opinion on environmental issues shape citizens' opinions? Out and open access with @mbarnfield.bsky.social, @florianstoeckel.bsky.social, @benlyons.bsky.social, @vittoriomerola.bsky.social, and @jasonreifler.bsky.social + others! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
- Reposted by Ozan KuruNew real-world field study *inoculating* against misinformation in live social media scroll feeds out in Harvard Misinfo Review @misinforeview.bsky.social We targeted +375k users with a short ad on Insta using a novel quasi-experimental method (1/3) misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/preb...
- "A central insight from our study was that the question of what purpose a review should pursue depended critically on the status of knowledge in a field. Ultimately, we succeeded in mapping the different purposes onto four main directions a review can progress a field of research (Fig.1)"
- “Why do both economically advantaged and disadvantaged voters sometimes converge in their support for conservative parties? ... Because inequality is inherently relational, its political implications arise not only from the objective distribution of resources but from ... themselves and others"
- Reposted by Ozan KuruPeople keep referring to what’s going on in the US right now as a “modern-day gestapo” and “un-American”. In my @annualreviews.bsky.social preprint w/ @abautistachavez.bsky.social (doi.org/10.1146/annu...), we show that the US has repressed and expelled marginalized communities throughout history.
- Reposted by Ozan KuruThere's a type of survey that is fueling talk of a young adult religious revival in the UK & the US. You should be concerned about this type of survey because it is increasingly common and it may produce misleading results on many topics other than religion. Read more:
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- Reposted by Ozan KuruNew party identification polling from Gallup this week shows Americans are moving against Trump faster than they did in his first term. Adults were R+4 in 2024, now D+8. That 12-pt drop is 3x the change in the first year of his first term. www.gelliottmorris.com/p/backlash-t...
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- Reposted by Ozan KuruONLINE FIRST! This article by @antoniskalog.bsky.social, @richardfletcher.bsky.social, and @rasmuskleis.bsky.social compares inequalities in #news use in traditional offline and #online news #media environments over time among #internet users in six countries. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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- Reposted by Ozan KuruThere is no ethical use of AI because the continued existence of the AI industry is directly harmful to (alongside everyone else) the interests of everyone whose labour makes books exist—writers of fiction & nonfiction, illustrators, translators, researchers, editors, everyone.
- Reposted by Ozan KuruThe core concept I develop is defiant pride: when state institutions discriminate against a group, more exposed members double down on their identity as a psychological defense mechanism. This manifests as ethnicity becoming a larger part of the self-concept, which shapes preferences and beliefs.
- Reposted by Ozan KuruThis suggests that VAAs, while not increasing the quantity of voteswitching, do increase the quality of voteswitching: while many non-users switch their votes ahead of elections too, VAAs make it more likely for users to switch precisely to the party they are ideologically most aligned with. 12/14
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- Reposted by Ozan KuruWhy do citizens who say they support democracy tolerate leaders who dismantle it? Delighted to share my paper “Framing Democracy: How Elite Discourse Shapes Citizens' Understandings of Democracy and Enables Backsliding” is forthcoming in World Politics...(1/5, link at the end)
- Reposted by Ozan KuruExcited that "Race, Gender, and Nascent Political Ambition" is now out in @bjpols.bsky.social. W/ survey of white, Hispanic, and Black American respondents, we show primary gap in nascent political ambition is not between men and women but between white men and the majority of the polity.
- NEW - Race, Gender, and Nascent Political Ambition - cup.org/4s4ZzFT - Andrea Junqueira, @dzobrien.bsky.social, @mhayes.bsky.social, Jongwoo Jeong, Brian Crisp & Matthew Gabel #OpenAccess
- De Gruyter Handbook of Media Psychology, edited by Rachel L. Bailey & Glenna L. Read, has arrived, with comprehensive reviews of media psychology. It includes our chapter on psychology of digital news consumption and public opinion (Anita KC Liu & Ozan Kuru). www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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- Reposted by Ozan KuruHere we go! @lmesseri.bsky.social & I wrote about epistemic risks of synthetic participants ('AI Surrogates') in @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social (see 🧵 here) bsky.app/profile/mjcr...
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- "our work reaffirms the idea that scholars must not assume that broad theories of political behavior apply equally well across a diverse population of people..., demonstrating across multiple data-sources that their cross-cutting identities allows for relative inter-partisan harmony."
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- Reposted by Ozan KuruNew study on LLMs shows that while LLMs & humans converge on similar judgments of reliability of news media, they rely on very different underlying processes. In delegating, are we confusing linguistic plausibility with epistemic reliability? The age of "epistemia" www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....
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- "Instead of treating all individuals and groups equally with respect to their status, power, or ends, a group theory of political communication requires normative analysis of the positioning of groups vis-a-vis one another and liberal democracy."
- 🚨New pub alert!🚨 Now available open-access in @journal-of-comm.bsky.social, we (w/ @dkreiss.bsky.social, @danlane.bsky.social, & @shannimcg.bsky.social) critique political communication's "Identity Turn" and offer instead a foundation for studying #polcomm from a *group* perspective. 🧵
- Gender hierarchies in reporting genocide: an analysis of the dehumanization of Palestinian men in Western media url: academic.oup.com/ccc/article/...
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- "Our certainty-weighted extension to the expectancy-value model clarifies why certain misbeliefs remain deeply influential, and how knowing more can move —but also polariz— public opinion."
- How do people form beliefs about complex topics? Happy to report our Bayesian model of the psychology of Bayesian updating is out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social! (w/ Gabriel Li & Krosnick) If you gloss over the Greek, it's a new model for how to assess the impacts of information on summary judgments.
- Reposted by Ozan KuruIn light of record submission rates and a large volume of AI-generated slop, SocArXiv recently implemented a policy requiring ORCIDs linked in the OSF profile of submitting authors, and narrowing our focus to social science subjects. Today we are taking two more steps: /1
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- "Integrate blogs into catalogues and repositories, assigning ISSNs and DOIs. Encourage open licensing to facilitate reuse and archiving. Support preservation initiatives like Rogue Scholar that combine openness with technical sustainability."
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- Reposted by Ozan KuruDo policy preferences of voters and non-voters differ in European democracies? My new article in @ejprjournal.bsky.social finds: Yes, sometimes, but this is not the norm. Let's break it down. 🧵 1/10
- Reposted by Ozan KuruPostdoctoral Researcher Positions!
- Reposted by Ozan KuruIt's already time for the third session of our PolCom Classics! This round, we’re diving into mediatization & media logic with none other than @jesperstromback.bsky.social 🗓 November 27 ⏰ 12:00–13:00 CET 📲 Register via the QR code or the link below — hope to see you there!
- Reposted by Ozan KuruSTOKED that our paper on smartphone and spatial habits is out in Scientific Reports! 🎉 Using mobility 🏃 and app 📱 data (27,446,977 logs; 7,226 trip questionnaires) we found that smartphone habits are stronger in habitually traveled and visited spaces 🏡 Personal thread below! rdcu.be/eQ7q0
