Publications | Sol Messing

Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages

How can one understand the spread of ideas across text data? This is a key measurement problem in sociological inquiry, from the study …

Hannah Waight, Solomon Messing, Anton Shirikov, Margaret E. Roberts, Jonathan Nagler, Jason Greenfield, Megan A. Brown, Kevin Aslett, Joshua A. Tucker

A 2 million-person, campaign-wide field experiment shows how digital advertising affects voter turnout

We present the results of a massive, $8.9 million campaign-wide field experiment, conducted among 2 million moderate and …

Minali Aggarwal, Jennifer Allen, Alexander Coppock, Dan Frankowski, Solomon Messing, Kelly Zhang, James Barnes, Andrew Beasley, Harry Hantman, Sylvan Zheng

Guidelines for Implementing and Auditing Differentially Private Systems

Differential privacy is an information theoretic constraint on algorithms and code. It provides quantification of privacy leakage and …

Daniel Kifer, Solomon Messing, Aaron Roth, Abhradeep Thakurta, Danfeng Zhang

Facebook Privacy-Protected Full URLs Data Set

One of the largest social science data sets ever constructed, meant to facilitate research on misinformation from across the web, …

Solomon Messing, Christina DeGregorio, Bennett Hillenbrand, Gary King, Saurav Mahanti, Chaya Nayak, Nate Persily

Tumor formation of adult stem cell transplants in rodent arthritic joints

Purpose: While imaging matrix-associated stem cell transplants aimed for cartilage repair in a rodent arthritis model, we noticed that …

Fanny Chapelin, Aman Khurana, Mohammad Moneeb, Florette K Gray Hazard, Chun Fai Ray Chan, Hossein Nejadnik, Dita Gratzinger, Solomon Messing, Jason Erdmann, Amitabh Gaur, Others

Projecting confidence: How the probabilistic horse race confuses and demobilizes the public

Recent years have seen a dramatic change in horserace coverage of elections in the U.S.—shifting focus from late-breaking poll …

Sean Westwood, Solomon Messing, Yphtach Lelkes

Partisan Conflict and Congressional Outreach

Partisan criticism generates most engagement in social media; most liberal and conservative legislators, party leadership more likely …

Patrick Van Kessel, Adam G Hughes, Nick Judd, Rachel Blum, Brian Broderick Solomon Messing

Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects and the effects of heterogeneous treatments with ensemble methods

Randomized experiments are increasingly used to study political phenomena because they can credibly estimate the average effect of a …

Justin Grimmer, Solomon Messing, Sean J Westwood

Bias in the flesh: Skin complexion and stereotype consistency in political campaigns

There is strong evidence linking skin complexion to negative stereotypes and adverse real-world outcomes. We extend these findings to …

Solomon Messing, Maria Jabon, Ethan Plaut

Quantifying social media's political space: Estimating ideology from publicly revealed preferences on Facebook

We demonstrate that social media data represent a useful resource for testing models of legislative and individual-level political …

Robert Bond, Solomon Messing

Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook

Exposure to news, opinion, and civic information increasingly occurs through social media. How do these online networks influence …

Eytan Bakshy, Solomon Messing, Lada a Adamic

The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability

Constituents often fail to hold their representatives accountable for federal spending decisions―even though those very choices have a …

Justin Grimmer, Sean J. Westwood, Solomon Messing

Selective exposure in the age of social media: Endorsements trump partisan source affiliation when selecting news online

Much of the literature on polarization and selective exposure presumes that the internet exacerbates the fragmentation of the media and …

Solomon Messing, Sean J Westwood

Role of diffusion-weighted imaging in differentiating benign and malignant pediatric abdominal tumors

We retrospectively analyzed DWI scans of 68 consecutive children with 39 benign and 34 malignant abdominal masses. To calculate the …

Rakhee S Gawande, Gabriel Gonzalez, Solomon Messing, Aman Khurana, Heike E Daldrup-Link

Iron administration before stem cell harvest enables MR imaging tracking after transplantation

In vivo–labeled MSCs demonstrated significantly higher ferumoxytol uptake compared with ex vivo–labeled cells. With …

Aman Khurana, Fanny Chapelin, Graham Beck, Olga D Lenkov, Jessica Donig, Hossein Nejadnik, Solomon Messing, Nikita Derugin, Ray Chun-Fai Chan, Amitabh Gaur, Others

Friends that Matter: How Social News Shapes Political Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behavior

This chapter describes the first known research on how socially-shared news affects political interest, policy preferences, and self …

Solomon Messing

Ferumoxytol: a new, clinically applicable label for stem-cell tracking in arthritic joints with MRI

Aim To develop a clinically applicable MRI technique for tracking stem cells in matrix-associated stem-cell implants, using the US …

Aman Khurana, Hossein Nejadnik, Fanny Chapelin, Olga Lenkov, Rakhee Gawande, Sungmin Lee, Sandeep N Gupta, Nooshin Aflakian, Nikita Derugin, Solomon Messing, Others

Evaluation of the novel USPIO GEH121333 for MR imaging of cancer immune responses

Tumor-associated macrophages (TAM) maintain a chronic inflammation in cancers, which is associated with tumor aggressiveness and poor …

Qiaoyun Shi, Laura J Pisani, Yauk K Lee, Solomon Messing, Celina Ansari, Srabani Bhaumik, Lisa Lowery, Brian D Lee, Dan E Meyer, Heike E Daldrup-Link

Do attitudes about immigration predict willingness to admit individual immigrants? A cross-national test of the person-positivity bias

This paper demonstrates that citizens in seven advanced industrialized democracies generally oppose more open immigration policies, but …

Shanto Iyengar, Simon Jackman, Solomon Messing, Nicholas Valentino, Toril Aalberg, Raymond Duch, Kyu S Hahn, Stuart Soroka, Allison Harell, Tetsuro Kobayashi

Who is a `deserving'immigrant? An experimental study of Norwegian attitudes

Toril Aalberg, Shanto Iyengar, Solomon Messing

The 2012 Election Day Through the Facebook Lens

Solomon Messing, Cameron Marlow, Eytan Bakshy

Intravenous ferumoxytol allows noninvasive MR imaging monitoring of macrophage migration into stem cell transplants

Aman Khurana, Hossein Nejadnik, Rakhee Gawande, Guiting Lin, Sungmin Lee, Solomon Messing, Rosalinda Castaneda, Nikita Derugin, Laura Pisani, Tom F Lue, Others

How Words and Money Cultivate a Personal Vote: The Effect of Legislator Credit Claiming on Constituent Credit Allocation

Particularistic spending, a large literature argues, builds support for incumbents. This literature equates money spent in the district …

Justin Grimmer, Solomon Messing, Sean J. Westwood

FDG PET/CT for the Evaluation of Normal Thymus, Lymphoma Recurrence, and Mediastinal Lymphoma in Pediatric Patients Response

Rakhee S Gawande, Spencer Behr, Solomon Messing, Robert E Goldsby, Randall a Hawkins, Heike E Daldrup-Link

Differentiation of Normal Thymus from Anterior Mediastinal Lymphoma and Lymphoma Recurrence at Pediatric PET/CT

Rakhee S Gawande, Aman Khurana, Solomon Messing, Dong Zhang, Rosalinda T Castañeda, Robert E Goldsby, Randall a Hawkins, Heike E Daldrup-Link

Of course I wouldn't do that in real life: advancing the arguments for increasing realism in HCI experiments

Letitia Lew, Truc Nguyen, Solomon Messing, Sean Westwood

Measuring issue salience: Using supervised machine learning to generate data from free responses to the 'most important problem' question

Solomon Messing

Do explicit racial cues influence candidate preference? The case of skin complexion in the 2008 campaign