Ben M. Tappin

About Ben M. Tappin

Ben M. Tappin, With an exceptional h-index of 15 and a recent h-index of 14 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, specializes in the field of Attitude change, Behaviour change, Quantitative methods, Experiments.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Scaling laws for political persuasion with large language models

Using in-survey randomized controlled trials to support future pandemic response

Comparing the persuasiveness of role-playing large language models and human experts on polarized US political issues

How experiments help campaigns persuade voters: evidence from a large archive of campaigns’ own experiments

No association between numerical ability and politically motivated reasoning in a large US probability sample

A many-analysts approach to the relation between religiosity and well-being

Quantifying the potential persuasive returns to political microtargeting

Partisans’ receptivity to persuasive messaging is undiminished by countervailing party leader cues

Ben M. Tappin Information

University

Position

Postdoctoral Associate

Citations(all)

1031

Citations(since 2020)

956

Cited By

314

hIndex(all)

15

hIndex(since 2020)

14

i10Index(all)

17

i10Index(since 2020)

17

Email

University Profile Page

Google Scholar

Ben M. Tappin Skills & Research Interests

Attitude change

Behaviour change

Quantitative methods

Experiments

Top articles of Ben M. Tappin

Scaling laws for political persuasion with large language models

2024/4/8

Ben M Tappin
Ben M Tappin

H-Index: 9

Using in-survey randomized controlled trials to support future pandemic response

2024/1/4

Ben M Tappin
Ben M Tappin

H-Index: 9

Luke Hewitt
Luke Hewitt

H-Index: 5

Comparing the persuasiveness of role-playing large language models and human experts on polarized US political issues

2023/12/13

How experiments help campaigns persuade voters: evidence from a large archive of campaigns’ own experiments

2023/10

No association between numerical ability and politically motivated reasoning in a large US probability sample

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

2023/8/8

Ben M Tappin
Ben M Tappin

H-Index: 9

Quantifying the potential persuasive returns to political microtargeting

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

2023/6/20

Ben M Tappin
Ben M Tappin

H-Index: 9

Partisans’ receptivity to persuasive messaging is undiminished by countervailing party leader cues

Nature human behaviour

2023/4

Ben M Tappin
Ben M Tappin

H-Index: 9

Estimating the persistence of party cue influence in a panel survey experiment

Journal of Experimental Political Science

2023

Ben M Tappin
Ben M Tappin

H-Index: 9

Estimating the between-issue variation in party elite cue effects

Public Opinion Quarterly

2022/12/1

Ben M Tappin
Ben M Tappin

H-Index: 9

Rank-heterogeneous effects of political messages: Evidence from randomized survey experiments testing 59 video treatments

2022/9

Luke Hewitt
Luke Hewitt

H-Index: 5

Ben M Tappin
Ben M Tappin

H-Index: 9

Does observability amplify sensitivity to moral frames? Evaluating a reputation-based account of moral preferences

Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

2021/5/1

Valerio Capraro
Valerio Capraro

H-Index: 26

Ben M Tappin
Ben M Tappin

H-Index: 9

The (minimal) persuasive advantage of political video over text

2021

Ben M Tappin
Ben M Tappin

H-Index: 9

David Rand
David Rand

H-Index: 7

Estimating the causal effects of cognitive effort and policy information on party cue influence

2021

Ben M Tappin
Ben M Tappin

H-Index: 9

Ryan Mckay
Ryan Mckay

H-Index: 29

Bayesian or biased? Analytic thinking and political belief updating

Cognition

2020/11/1

Ben M Tappin
Ben M Tappin

H-Index: 9

Gordon Pennycook
Gordon Pennycook

H-Index: 41

Thinking clearly about causal inferences of politically motivated reasoning: Why paradigmatic study designs often undermine causal inference

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

2020/2

Rethinking the link between cognitive sophistication and politically motivated reasoning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

2020

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