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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="DE">Dear members and friends of the VCEE,<br>
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You are invited to attend the VCEE seminar on Friday May 12, 2023, from 10:30 to 12:00 hrs Vienna time.
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The seminar takes place in Seminar Room 14 (2nd floor) at Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1.<br>
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We will have one speaker: <b>Margaret Samahita</b> (<span class="jtukpc">University College Dublin</span>),
<span class="jtukpc"><a href="https://www.margaretsamahita.com/">https://www.margaretsamahita.com/</a></span><br>
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Here is more information about the talk:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="DE">Title: </span></b><span lang="DE"><br>
<span class="jtukpc"><b>How does social pressure stifle free speech?</b></span></span><span class="jtukpc"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><b><span lang="DE">Abstract:</span></b><span lang="DE"><br>
<span class="jtukpc">This paper studies public opinion in the contextof strong social norms. We present a model that highlights how social pressurecan affect the public expression of opinion either through a change in publiclystated views (conformity) or by
inducing self-censorship (silence). In several pre-registeredonline experiments in the US, we elicit participants' views on twocontroversial issues (gender and race) and their willingness to publish theseviews online in an incentivized manner. The empirical
patterns are consistentwith the presence of ideologically left-wing social norms: participants whoheld left-wing views were more willing to publish these. We then manipulatesocial pressure in three different ways. First, making participants aware ofthe prospect
for publication results in conformity to the left-wing norm.Second, informing participants that a lower share of previous participants werewilling to publish their views results in a lower willingness to publish.Finally, priming participants with the threat
of online social backlash reducestheir willingness to speak up (though explicit mention of "cancelculture" increases speaking up within a sub-sample). </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">If you are interested in meeting after the seminar (meeting slots of 30’, room no 05.330) you can register via this link:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="DE"><a href="https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/WtZ4NHAIesX8H1PI">https://nuudel.digitalcourage.de/WtZ4NHAIesX8H1PI</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span lang="DE">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE">Nora Brandes</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Mag. Nora Brandes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">University of Vienna<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Department of Economics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">1090-Wien, Austria<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:DE-AT">Phone: +43 1 4277 37404<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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