Polarizing information and support for reform

Haas, Nicholas; Hassan, Mazen; Mansour, Sarah; Morton, Rebecca B.

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2020.10.013

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“…The majority of the participants were female -which is common in social science departments in Egypt (e.g. (39)(40)(41) ). Average age was 21 and around 92% were Muslims.…”

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Is ChatGPT detrimental to innovation? A field experiment among university students

Hassan,

Amin,

Mansour

et al. 2024

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ChatGPT represents a momentous technological breakthrough whose implications – along with other AI innovations – are yet to fully materialize. This paper is among the first attempts to experimentally test the effect of AI applications (in the form of ChatGPT) on three dependent variables usually assumed to be AI-collaterals: innovation, readiness to exert effort, and risk behaviour. We took advantage of the delayed introduction of ChatGPT in Egypt and conducted a pre-registered field experiment with nearly 100 senior university students at a public university. Over one month during term time, participants were asked to submit three graded essay assignments. In the treatment group, students were asked to write the essays using ChatGPT whereas in the control group, such option was neither mentioned nor allowed (the experiment was fielded before ChatGPT was legally operable in Egypt). One week after all assignments were submitted, the two groups were invited to the lab to play an innovation game (deploying multiple strategies to increase the sales of a hypothetical lemonade stand), a risk game (bomb risk elicitation task), and do a real effort task. The ChatGPT group was significantly less innovative, significantly less risk averse, and exerted less effort (however not statistically significant). Our results point to possible negative effects of AI applications but need further testing and larger samples to be confirmed.

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“…The majority of the participants were female -which is common in social science departments in Egypt (e.g. (39)(40)(41) ). Average age was 21 and around 92% were Muslims.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Is ChatGPT detrimental to innovation? A field experiment among university students

Hassan,

Amin,

Mansour

et al. 2024

Preprint

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“…Thirdly, we are responding to a traditional criticism to the experimental literature that it draws most of its conclusions from lab experiments done among subjects in western, industrialized, rich, democracies. By conducting our experiment with Arab, predominantly Muslim subjects who have lived under authoritarianism for most of their lives, we have a unique opportunity to explore dynamics usually overlooked by previous experimental studies, except for few (Hassan and Shalaby 2019;Hassan et al 2020;Haas et al 2020).…”

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How do electoral and voice accountability affect corruption? Experimental evidence from Egypt

Mansour

Wallace

Sadiraj

et al. 2021

European Journal of Political Economy

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“…In taking this two-country approach, we follow other recent, experimental research that seeks to replicate results across a diverse set of countries (e.g. Haas et al 2020) to illustrate generalizable political phenomena. To be sure, future research should explore the dynamics of unilateral policymaking in other contexts.…”

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Respect the Process: The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Comparative Perspective

Chu,

Williamson

2024

The Journal of Politics

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Executives often bypass legislatures to make policies by decree. How does public opinion react to this unilateral decision-making? Building from research on executive orders and theories of legislative politics, we argue that executives in both democratic and authoritarian political systems will face public disapproval for making policy decisions unilaterally. Through survey experiments implemented in the United States and Egypt, we show that executives consistently receive lower approval for unilateral action in both domestic and foreign policymaking, even among co-partisans. We find evidence that this effect is driven by the belief that excluding the legislature violates appropriate democratic procedure, but also that the effect weakens when unilateral action is used to advance policies known to represent the majority's preference. Observational survey data from dozens of countries corroborate the experimental results. The paper sheds new light on the contexts in which popular commitment to democratic principles may constrain unilateral decision-making.

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Polarizing information and support for reform

Cited by 6 publications

References 28 publications

Is ChatGPT detrimental to innovation? A field experiment among university students

Is ChatGPT detrimental to innovation? A field experiment among university students

How do electoral and voice accountability affect corruption? Experimental evidence from Egypt

Respect the Process: The Public Cost of Unilateral Action in Comparative Perspective

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