Publications

Peer-reviewed articles, books, and working papers.

See also my Google Scholar profile.

2026

State Media Control Influences Large Language Models
Hannah Waight, Eddie Yang, Yin Yuan, Solomon Messing, Margaret E. Roberts, Brandon M. Stewart, Joshua A. Tucker
Nature, 2026.
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2025

Web scraping for research: Legal, ethical, institutional, and scientific considerations
Megan A. Brown, Andrew Gruen, Gabe Maldoff, Solomon Messing, Zeve Sanderson, Michael Zimmer
Big Data & Society, 2025.
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Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages
Hannah Waight, Solomon Messing, Anton Shirikov, Margaret E. Roberts, Jonathan Nagler, Jason Greenfield, Megan A. Brown, Kevin Aslett, Joshua A. Tucker
Sociological Methods & Research, 2025.
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2024

Concept-Guided Chain-of-Thought Prompting for Pairwise Comparison Scoring of Texts with Large Language Models
Patrick Y. Wu, Jonathan Nagler, Joshua A. Tucker, Solomon Messing
2024 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData), 2024.
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Digital town square? Nextdoor’s offline contexts and online discourse
Megan A. Brown, Zeve Sanderson, Sarah Graham, Minjoo Kim, Joshua A. Tucker, Solomon Messing
Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media, 2024.
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2023

A 2 million-person, campaign-wide field experiment shows how digital advertising affects voter turnout
Minali Aggarwal, Jennifer Allen, Alexander Coppock, Dan Frankowski, Solomon Messing, Kelly Zhang, James Barnes, Andrew Beasley, Harry Hantman, Sylvan Zheng
Nature Human Behaviour, 2023.
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2020

Guidelines for Implementing and Auditing Differentially Private Systems
Daniel Kifer, Solomon Messing, Aaron Roth, Abhradeep Thakurta, Danfeng Zhang
arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.04049, 2020.

Facebook Privacy-Protected Full URLs Data Set
Solomon Messing, Christina DeGregorio, Bennett Hillenbrand, Gary King, Saurav Mahanti, Chaya Nayak, Nate Persily
2020.
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2019

Tumor formation of adult stem cell transplants in rodent arthritic joints
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
Molecular Imaging and Biology, 2019.

Projecting confidence: How the probabilistic horse race confuses and demobilizes the public
Sean Westwood, Solomon Messing, Yphtach Lelkes
Journal of Politics, 2019.
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2017

Partisan Conflict and Congressional Outreach
Patrick van Kessel, Adam G Hughes, Nick Judd, Rachel Blum, Brian Broderick Solomon Messing
Pew Research Center, 2017.

Estimating heterogeneous treatment effects and the effects of heterogeneous treatments with ensemble methods
Justin Grimmer, Solomon Messing, Sean J Westwood
Political Analysis, 2017.
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2016

Bias in the flesh: Skin complexion and stereotype consistency in political campaigns
Solomon Messing, Maria Jabon, Ethan Plaut
Public opinion quarterly, 2016.
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2015

Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook
Eytan Bakshy, Solomon Messing, Lada A Adamic
Science, 2015.
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2014

The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communication, Representation, and Democratic Accountability
Justin Grimmer, Sean J. Westwood, Solomon Messing
Princeton University Press, 2014.

2013

Role of diffusion-weighted imaging in differentiating benign and malignant pediatric abdominal tumors
Rakhee S Gawande, Gabriel Gonzalez, Solomon Messing, Aman Khurana, Heike E Daldrup-Link
Pediatric radiology, 2013.

Iron administration before stem cell harvest enables MR imaging tracking after transplantation
Aman Khurana, Fanny Chapelin, Graham Beck, Olga D Lenkov, Jessica Donig, Hossein Nejadnik, Solomon Messing, Nikita Derugin, Ray Chun-Fai Chan, Amitabh Gaur, others
Radiology, 2013.

Ferumoxytol: a new, clinically applicable label for stem-cell tracking in arthritic joints with MRI
Aman Khurana, Hossein Nejadnik, Fanny Chapelin, Olga Lenkov, Rakhee Gawande, Sungmin Lee, Sandeep N Gupta, Nooshin Aflakian, Nikita Derugin, Solomon Messing, others
Nanomedicine, 2013.

Evaluation of the novel USPIO GEH121333 for MR imaging of cancer immune responses
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
Contrast media & molecular imaging, 2013.

Do attitudes about immigration predict willingness to admit individual immigrants? A cross-national test of the person-positivity bias
Shanto Iyengar, Simon Jackman, Solomon Messing, Nicholas Valentino, Toril Aalberg, Raymond Duch, Kyu S Hahn, Stuart Soroka, Allison Harell, Tetsuro Kobayashi
Public opinion quarterly, 2013.

2012

Who is a `deserving’immigrant? An experimental study of Norwegian attitudes
Toril Aalberg, Shanto Iyengar, Solomon Messing
Scandinavian Political Studies, 2012.

The 2012 Election Day Through the Facebook Lens
Solomon Messing, Cameron Marlow, Eytan Bakshy
2012.
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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
Radiology, 2012.

How Words and Money Cultivate a Personal Vote: The Effect of Legislator Credit Claiming on Constituent Credit Allocation
Justin Grimmer, Solomon Messing, Sean J. Westwood
American Political Science Review, 2012.
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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
RADIOLOGY, 2012.

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
Radiology, 2012.

2011

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
CHI’11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2011.

2008

Do explicit racial cues influence candidate preference? The case of skin complexion in the 2008 campaign
Shanto Iyengar, Kyu S Hahn, Solomon Messing, Jeremy N Bailenson
The Case of Skin Complexion in the, 2008.