Christopher Andrew Bail CV

Professor of Sociology

christopher.bail@duke.edu

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Scholarly Works - Preprints

Designing Social Media to Promote Productive Political Dialogue

Preprint · July 20, 2026 Social media are frequently blamed for exacerbating ideological divides. We evaluate whether it is possible to design a social media platform that instead promotes productive, open-minded dialogue among users. We recruited 1,043 Americans to test a new ... Full text Cite

The Discomfort of Being Outnumbered Online: Evidence from a Dynamic Discussion Experiment

Preprint · April 20, 2026 Full text Cite

A Sociological Turing Test: Social Identity Cues Shape Who is Classified as Human Online

Preprint · July 23, 2025 Full text Cite

Designing Social Media to Promote Productive Political Dialogue on a New Research Platform

Preprint · June 3, 2025 Full text Cite

The Causal Effects of Political Incivility in Social Media Discussions

Preprint · April 23, 2025 Full text Cite

Experiments offering social media users the choice to avoid toxic political content

Preprint · February 15, 2025 Full text Cite

Designing Social Media to Promote Productive Political Dialogue on a New Research Platform

Preprint · September 6, 2024 Full text Cite

Outnumbered Online: The Consequences of Partisan Imbalance in Online Political Discussions

Preprint · January 5, 2024 Full text Cite

Do We Need a Social Media Accelerator?

Preprint · December 23, 2023 Full text Cite

Experiments offering social media users the choice to avoid toxic political content

Preprint · December 8, 2023 Full text Cite

Perceived Gender and Political Persuasion: A Social Media Field Experiment during the 2020 Democratic National Primary

Preprint · October 5, 2022 Full text Cite

Anonymous Cross-Party Conversations Can Decrease Political Polarization: A Field Experiment on a Mobile Chat Platform

Preprint · September 23, 2022 Full text Cite

Interventions to Reduce Partisan Animosity

Preprint · 2022 Full text Cite

Exposure to Opposing Views can Increase Political Polarization: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment on Social Media

Preprint · March 21, 2018 Full text Cite