Political Discussion and Attitude Change: Using Automated Methods to Understand Interpersonal Conversation

• In Event: Talking and listening in political communication

Brief Overview

We suggest argumentation may decrease attitude extremity relative to casual, non-persuasive discussions. We test the effects of political discussion by deploying a series of chatbots—one retrieval-based and two generative—on Facebook Messenger.

Author

• Isaac Mehlhaff, The University of Chicago