Ethan Porter

Best Publications

• The Elusive Backfire Effect: Mass Attitudes’ Steadfast Factual Adherence

  Thomas Wood;Ethan Porter

  810
  Citations

• Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration.

  Matthew J Salganik;Ian Lundberg;Alexander T Kindel;Caitlin E Ahearn

  318
  Citations

• Taking Fact-Checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-Checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability

  Brendan Nyhan;Ethan Porter;Jason Reifler;Thomas J. Wood

  309
  Citations

• The global effectiveness of fact-checking: Evidence from simultaneous experiments in Argentina, Nigeria, South Africa, and the United Kingdom

  Ethan Porter;Thomas J. Wood

  127
  Citations

• Elite rhetoric can undermine democratic norms.

  Katherine Clayton;Nicholas T. Davis;Brendan Nyhan;Ethan Porter

  121
  Citations

• The wisdom of partisan crowds.

  Joshua Becker;Ethan Porter;Damon Centola

  109
  Citations

• Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government

  Ryan W. Buell;Ethan Porter;Michael I. Norton

  92
  Citations

• False Alarm

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  61
  Citations

• Time and skeptical opinion content erode the effects of science coverage on climate beliefs and attitudes

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  55
  Citations

• Can presidential misinformation on climate change be corrected? Evidence from Internet and phone experiments:

  Ethan Porter;Thomas J. Wood;Babak Bahador

  54
  Citations

• Does digital advertising affect vote choice? Evidence from a randomized field experiment

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  52
  Citations

• Sex Trafficking, Russian Infiltration, Birth Certificates, and Pedophilia: A Survey Experiment Correcting Fake News

  Ethan Porter;Thomas J. Wood;David Kirby

  52
  Citations

• Political Misinformation and Factual Corrections on the Facebook News Feed: Experimental Evidence

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  48
  Citations

• Correcting Bias in Perceptions of Public Opinion Among American Elected Officials: Results from Two Field Experiments

  Joshua L. Kalla;Ethan Porter

  46
  Citations

• Taking Fact-checks Literally But Not Seriously? The Effects of Journalistic Fact-checking on Factual Beliefs and Candidate Favorability

  Brendan Nyhan;Ethan Porter;Jason Reifler;Thomas Wood

  38
  Citations

• False Alarm: The Truth About Political Mistruths in the Trump Era

  Ethan Porter;Thomas J. Wood

  38
  Citations

• Conceptual Replication of Four Key Findings about Factual Corrections and Misinformation during the 2020 US Election: Evidence from Panel-Survey Experiments

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  27
  Citations

• Partisanship, Bureaucratic Responsiveness, and Election Administration: Evidence from a Field Experiment

  Ethan Porter;Jon C Rogowski

  26
  Citations

• Latino-Targeted Misinformation and the Power of Factual Corrections

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  24
  Citations

• Information, Knowledge, and Attitudes: An Evaluation of the Taxpayer Receipt

  Lucy Barnes;Avi Feller;Jake Haselswerdt;Ethan Porter

  13
  Citations