Shared partisanship dramatically increases social tie formation in a Twitter field experiment

Americans are much more likely to be socially connected to copartisans, both in daily life and on social media. However, this observation does not necessarily mean that shared partisanship per se drives social tie formation, because partisanship is confounded with many other factors. Here, we test t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mosleh, Mohsen, Martel, Cameron, Eckles, Dean, Rand, David G
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2021
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/133671