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Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform

Aidan Combs, Graham Tierney, Brian Guay, Friedolin Merhout, Christopher A. Bail, D. Sunshine Hillygus, Alexander Volfovsky

Nature Human Behaviour, 2023. DOI 10.1038/s41562-023-01655-0

Has this study been replicated?

The atlas records 1 reproduction of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 mixed.

Reproductions

• A comment on Combs et al. (2023) "Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform", Lacko & Prošek (2025). I4R Report. Outcome recorded: computationally reproducible, robustness challenges. Robustness: Bayesian estimation indicated that only two results were more likely than the null hypothesis according to Bayes factors Outcome read from Robustness: abstract.

Cite this record

Combs, A., Tierney, G., Guay, B., Merhout, F., Bail, C. A., Hillygus, D. S., & Volfovsky, A. (2023). Reducing political polarization in the United States with a mobile chat platform. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(9), 1454–1461. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01655-0

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