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🚨📢"Anti-Intellectualism and the Mass Public’s Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic" (with @PeejLoewen) now coming soon to Nature Human Behaviour!🤯Check it out!👀 1/

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Lot of cool stuff in this paper. We show that anti-intellectualism (AI) was strongly associated with COVID-19 risk perceptions (-), social distancing compliance (-), COVID-19 misbeliefs (+), and news attention (-) as the pandemic unfolded in 🇨🇦 beyond effects of ideology 2/

We use panel data to link AI to within-respondent dynamics in mask adoption as expert advice changed on this question in April and May of 2020 3/

And we show that AI shapes information preferences using a pair of experiments with pre-registered replications. People generally prefer COVID-19 news content and information from experts, but this isn't nearly as true for people with high levels of AI 4/

And to that point in time, having surveyed over 27 thousand 🇨🇦s, we highlight some really cool descriptives. We are now up to 76,000 people with our @MediaEcosystem surveys since last March, so it will be an invaluable data set for future work on the public's pandemic response 5/

We can't take trust in experts for granted. This paper joins a growing body of work examining how AI and populism shape the public's response to expert advice, including some of my own research below, and work by @matt_motta, @nielsmede and others 6/

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This paper was a tonne of work, so I am very glad it is finding such an awesome home. It couldn't have happened without the large scale data collection of the @MediaEcosystem team, including @taylor_owen, @derekruths, @AengusBridgman, and @ozhilin1 7/

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