8 papers
German parties shifted towards intuition-based rhetoric after the far right's parliamentary breakthrough
Peer Saleth, Segun T. Aroyehun, Fabio Carrella +3
The spread of misinformation is widely perceived as a threat to democratic deliberation, yet how political elites' rhetorical commitments to truth shift alongside the rise of popul…
Large Language Models Approach Expert Pedagogical Quality in Math Tutoring but Differ in Instructional and Linguistic Profiles
Ramatu Oiza Abdulsalam, Segun Aroyehun
Recent work has explored the use of large language models (LLMs) to generate tutoring responses in mathematics, yet it remains unclear how closely their instructional behavior alig…
Anticipating Innovation Using Large Language Models
Enrico Maria Fenoaltea, Filippo Santoro, Giordano De Marzo +2
Forecasting innovation, intended as the emergence of new technological combinations, is a fundamental challenge for science and policy. We show that forthcoming combinations leave…
Epistemic orientation in parliamentary discourse is associated with deliberative democracy
Segun Aroyehun, Stephan Lewandowsky, David Garcia
The pursuit of truth is central to democratic deliberation and governance, yet political discourse reflects varying epistemic orientations, ranging from evidence-based reasoning gr…
Automatic Classifiers Underdetect Emotions Expressed by Men
Ivan Smirnov, Segun T. Aroyehun, Paul Plener +1
The widespread adoption of automatic sentiment and emotion classifiers makes it important to ensure that these tools perform reliably across different populations. Yet their reliab…
Collective moderation of hate, toxicity, and extremity in online discussions
Jana Lasser, Alina Herderich, Joshua Garland +3
In the digital age, hate speech poses a threat to the functioning of social media platforms as spaces for public discourse. Top-down approaches to moderate hate speech encounter di…