Fabian Guy Neuner

@fabianneuner.bsky.social

Associate Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies at ASU. Political Psychologist.

Job alert 🚨! We have a six-year postdoc position with our department 👇. If you work in areas we work in and/or extend our work in interesting ways, please consider applying. We have a lot of diverse projects, international staff, run our business in English & are located in one of the best cities 🌍.

Institut für Staatswissenschaft / Department of Government@stawi-univie.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨Open Position! We are looking for a University Assistant Postdoc (40h/week) Start: 1 October 2026 Application deadline: 20 August 2026 Find the full job advertisement here 👇 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

As deadly heat dominates the news here's some practical guidance on one of the best ways cities can make it more bearable for residents: plan for shade. We highlight some lessons learned from developing Phoenix's first comprehensive shade plan: www.planning.org/planning/202...

Phoenix’s First-of-its-Kind Plan Shows Shade is More Than Just Trees Now

Six ways planners can combine vegetative and built shade to improve comfort and safety on the ground.

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“Substantial variation in out-party hostility exists at every level of partisan strength—even among the strongest partisans. We further show that ideological and issue-attitude strength meaningfully predict which strong partisans become most hostile toward the out-party.”

Josh Zingher@zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

New paper from the social media-less Alexa Bankert and me. Here, we investigate the relationship between partisanship and out party antipathy. We find there’s a ton of variation within partisan groups in terms of out party hostility. 1/2 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

We're hosting PRIEC at Boulder again. Submit proposals by July 3rd, 2026. We'll prioritize those on the job market, but scholars at all stages are welcome to attend. We have limited funding to provide lodging for early career presenters. forms.gle/C5bH6ndyG3A2...

2026 Barney Ford Lab Annual Meeting/PRIEC

The Barney Ford Lab at CU Boulder is happy to announce that we are welcoming proposals for our 2nd annual meeting. Our annual meeting will take place in beautiful Boulder CO on Friday November 6th to ...

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“Writing is hard.” Thrilled to share that this simple idea led to a new paper in Political Analysis! Where most text methods focus on content, I test if expression is also effortful action. I find simple measures like character counts reveal attitudes and predict voting. cup.org/4cUmoXi 1/

Text as Behavior
Text as Behavior published in Political Analysis

by Omar Wasow

Abstract

Text analysis typically focuses on content—such as sentiment or topic—but expression is also a form of effortful action. Building on this insight, I propose using simple features of open-ended tasks to study text as behavior. This approach treats expression, such as writing, as cognitively, emotionally and temporally “costly” for subjects but inexpensive for researchers. I show basic statistics like the number of characters can approximate effort and significantly improve estimation of quantities of interest, including candidate choice, the probability of turning out to vote and psychological states about which a subject may not be fully aware. Further, these methods can convert nonresponse into informative data; validate survey instruments; serve as mechanism checks; be hard for a subject to “game”; work across different languages and analogize well to real-world situations. In sum, text as behavior can help address a range of issues related to quantifying attitudes and actions.

Thrilled to announce my paper with @dianamejordan.bsky.social & sky-less Trent Ollerenshaw is now published open-access at @apsrjournal.bsky.social. In a (very) large replication & extension, we show that design effects of repeated measure experiments are nonzero but typically small. Thread:

Abstract for "New Evidence and Design Considerations for Repeated Measure Experiments in Survey Research" by Diana Jordan, Trent Ollerenshaw, and Andrew Trexler, published in the American Political Science Review. The abstract text reads: "We re-examine recent influential claims that repeated measure experimental designs offer large precision gains without biasing treatment effect estimates in survey research. We test these claims by experimentally varying the design of six classic political science experiments across three distinct large samples of U.S. adults (total N = 13,163). In contrast to prior evidence, we observe consistent attenuation of treatment effects in repeated measure designs. However, we show in simulations that this average design effect is small enough, and the precision gains large enough, that we recommend repeated measure designs for broad application—though (large-N) post-only designs may be preferable when research priorities include estimating the precise magnitude of a treatment effect. We additionally explore how several design considerations affect the bias-precision trade-off, such as within-subject versus between-groups designs, the relative separation of repeated measures within single surveys, and differences in respondent characteristics across sample types."
Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR@cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 5mo ago

#OpenAccess from @apsrjournal.bsky.social - New Evidence and Design Considerations for Repeated Measure Experiments in Survey Research - https://cup.org/4sVtFLj - @dianamejordan.bsky.social, TRENT OLLERENSHAW & @atrexler.com #FirstView

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Please apply - we will match you with a mentor for experiments stuff and give you some $$!

Miguel Pereira@miguelpereira.bsky.social · 5mo ago

🚨 The APSA Experimental Research section (@experimentsapsa.bsky.social) invites research proposals from post-prospectus PhD students for its 2nd Experimental Research Early-Career Fellowship. The program prrovides a mentor and some funding. (1/2) Apply by June 15 forms.gle/fXHaqYK3TEL3...

Journal editors - the status quo on preregistration is not working! You need to check submissions vs. preregistrations before sending articles out for review. *56%* of experiments I reviewed in last year have severe problems with non-disclosure, undocumented deviations, & more - see Claude summary ↓

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For #PolPsych folks: For my political psychology graduate class this semester I would like my students to write peer reviews of current political psychology working papers. Please get in touch if you're willing to share a working paper that you'd like some additional eyes on. Thanks in advance.

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