Why do some cultures and their associated values go extinct while others prevail? In this paper, we uncover a relationship between a society’s deep-rooted gender norms and its risk of cultural extinction, proxied by language loss: languages from more gender-equal societies face a higher likelihood of extinction compared to those from male-dominant societies.
- Speaker
- Date
- Monday 17 Mar 2025, 11:30 - 12:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Room
- 3.09
- Building
- Polak Building
In a pre-registered three-wave survey experiment in the weeks around election day, participants (California voters) were randomly assigned to use either BallotBot or a traditional digital voter guide to answer questions about ballot initiatives. BallotBot access improved participants' ability to answer in-depth questions, reduced overconfidence, lowered the perceived cost of acquiring information for less-informed participants, and fostered greater engagement with political information. However, it had no clear effect on self-reported turnout or the direction of voting.
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