Chagai M. Weiss

Assistant Professor
Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair
The University of Toronto
chagai.weiss@utoronto.ca

Working Papers

1. Shooting the Messenger: The Polarizing Effects of Political Attacks on the Press. (with Alexandra Siegel).
2. Seeing Green: The Effects of Financial Exposure on Support for Climate Action. (with Saumitra Jha, Michele Hanlon, Namrata Kala, and Nemit Shroff).
   [AEA RCT Registry] [NBER Working Paper]

In Progress

1. Rethinking Prejudice Reduction. In Preparation for the Annual Review of Political Science.
2. Healing Democracy: Psychological Distress, Democratic Erosion, and the Promise of AI-Supported Therapy (with Sascha Riaz).
3. Persuasion at Scale: Evidence from Meta-Analyses of Proprietary Experiments and Addressable TV RCTs. (with Zeynep Biyikli, Michael Baumer, Donald Green, James Slezak, and Robb Willer).
4. Resisting Integration: How Religious Minorities React to Threats of Conscription (with Hanno Hilbig).