Predicting Ideological Prejudice

Predicting Ideological Prejudice

A major shortcoming of current models of ideological prejudice is that although they can anticipate the direction of the association between participants' ideology and their prejudice against a range of target groups, they cannot predict the size of this association. I developed and tested models that can make specific size predictions for this association. A quantitative model that used the pe...

Predicting User's Political Party Using Ideological Stances

Predicting users political party in social media has important impacts on many real world applications such as targeted advertising, recommendation and personalization. Several political research studies on it indicate that political parties’ ideological beliefs on sociopolitical issues may influence the users political leaning. In our work, we exploit users’ ideological stances on controversia...

Predicting Stance in Ideological Debate with Rich Linguistic Knowledge

Debate stance classification, the task of classifying an author's stance in a two-sided debate, is a relatively new and challenging problem in opinion mining. One of its challenges stems from the fact that it is not uncommon to find words and phrases in a debate post that are indicative of the opposing stance, owing to the frequent need for an author to re-state other people's opinions so that ...

Parent-Child Similarity in Common and Specific Components of Prejudice: The Role of Ideological Attitudes and Political Discussion

Using a representative sample of Belgian adolescents (N=1,530) and both their parents, we investigated the parent-child similarity in prejudice toward different outgroups and ideological attitudes (right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation). Contrary to previous studies, we distinguished between common and specific components of prejudice to test whether the parent-child simi...

Ideological Strategy