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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. Bayesian estimation indicated that only two results were more likely than the null hypothesis according to Bayes factors Outcome read from the 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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