Explaining the Trump Gap in Social Distancing Using COVID Discourse

no code implementations • EMNLP (NLP-COVID19) 2020 • Austin Van Loon, Sheridan Stewart, Brandon Waldon, Shrinidhi K Lakshmikanth, Ishan Shah, Sharath Chandra Guntuku, Garrick Sherman, James Zou, Johannes Eichstaedt

Our ability to limit the future spread of COVID-19 will in part depend on our understanding of the psychological and sociological processes that lead people to follow or reject coronavirus health behaviors.

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Regional Negative Bias in Word Embeddings Predicts Racial Animus--but only via Name Frequency

no code implementations • 20 Jan 2022 • Austin Van Loon, Salvatore Giorgi, Robb Willer, Johannes Eichstaedt

As the frequency of Black names on social media is strongly correlated with Black Americans' prevalence in the population, this results in spurious anti-Black WEAT estimates wherever few Black Americans live.

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