Tweetment Effects on the Tweeted: Experimentally Reducing Racist Harassment

Political Behavior

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 629-649

  Munger, Kevin ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Online harassment; Randomized field experiment; Social identity; Social media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994728020     PISSN: 01909320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11109-016-9373-5     Document Type: Article

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