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[1] Empowering Evidence in Polarized Environments

How can news organizations and scientific community more effectively communicate evidence and mitigate the negative consequences of partisan divisions and misinformation? To answer this question, I investigate:

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  • Strategies to build credibility in evidence-based sources (e.g., science communication, fact-checking)

  • Reasoning through scientific evidence or trusted advisors

  • Evidence-based perceptions of politics (e.g., public health, climate change, etc.)​

[2] Can Lived Experiences & Emotions Bring People Together?

What brings individuals of diverse backgrounds together in politics? Can lived experiences and emotions help people converge on informed assessment of the government and public policies? In this line of research, I study how public opinion is shaped based on:

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  • Emotions (e.g., anxiety and government blame, self-affirming emotions and pro-environmental behaviors)

  • Traumatic events (e.g., natural disaster experiences and environmental policy preferences)​

Peer-Reviewed Publications

Deanna Kolberg-Shah and Hwayong Shin. 2024. “Can Corruption Connect You to Politics? Nepotism, Anxiety, and Government Blame.” Political Psychology. 

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Shin, Hwayong, Priti Shah, and Stephanie Preston. 2024. “The Reasoning through Evidence versus Advice (EvA) Scale: Scale Development and Validation.” Journal of Personality Assessment. ​

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“How Does Topical Diversity Affect Source Credibility? News Coverage of Politics, Science, and Popular Culture.” (R&R at the International Journal of Press/Politics)

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Shin, Hwayong, T.K. Ahn, and Won-ho Park. 2015. “Between Public Interest and Personal Interest: Survey Experiment on the Local Context of Political Issues and Policy Preferences.” Korean Political Science Review 49(4): 301–333. [In Korean]

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Shin, Hwayong. 2015. “Perceived Threat as a Motivator of Policy Voting: Analysis of the 2012 US Presidential Election.” American Studies 38(1): 77–101.

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  • Received Muhyang Scholar’s Best Paper Award, American Studies Institute, Seoul National University, 2016.​

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Park, Won-ho and Hwayong Shin. 2014. “Emotional Underpinnings of Partisanship: The Sewol Ferry Disaster and the 2014 Korean Local Election.” Korean Political Science Review 48(5): 119-142. [In Korean]

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Shin, Hwayong. 2014. “Una Lectura de El Llano en llamas desde Corea: El Valor Social de la Facultad Emotiva.” México y La Cuenca del Pacífico 17(51): 75-95. [In Spanish]

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Under Review

“The Objectivity Dilemma in Delivering Facts: The Effects of Asymmetric Coverage on Source Credibility” 

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“Disaster Experience Mitigates the Partisan Divide on Climate Change: Evidence from Texas” with Ted Hsuan Yun Chen, Christopher Fariss, and Xu Xu.

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"Do People Really Want Corrective Information? Public Attitudes Toward Fact-Checking and Conventional News.”

Research In Progress

“Empowering Effects of Evidence (E3): Developing Educational Videos to Promote Evidence-based Reasoning” with Stephanie Preston, Priti Shah, and Tanner Nichols. (animation scripts available upon request)

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“What Can We Learn from Social Science’s Steroid Era?” with Nicolás Idrobo, Arthur Lupia, and Rocío Titiunik.​ (working paper available upon request)

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“Do "Warm Glow" Feelings Promote Green Behavior?” with Jennifer Jerit and Jason Barabas.

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