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    "title": "Consequential Consensus: A Decade of Online Discourse about Same-sexMarriage",
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    "abstract": "Framing issues as matters of non-negotiable values can increase the perceived intractability of debates. Focusing on theconcrete consequences of policies instead can facilitate conflict resolution. Using a topic model of Reddit commentsfrom January 2006 to September 2017, we show that the contribution of certain topics concerned with protected val-ues to the debate increased prior to the emergence of a public consensus in support of same-sex marriage and declinedafterwards. These topics related to religious arguments and freedom of opinion. In contrast, discussion of certain con-crete consequences (the impact of politicians stances and policy implications) showed the opposite pattern, their increasedprominence coinciding with improved public support for same-sex marriage after 2012. Our results reinforce the mean-ingfulness of protected values and consequentialism as relevant dimensions for describing public discourse and highlightthe usefulness of unsupervised machine learning methods in tackling questions about social attitude change.",
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            "first_name": "Babak",
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            "last_name": "Hemmatian",
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            "institution": "Brown University",
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            "first_name": "Sabina",
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            "institution": "Carnegie Mellon University",
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            "last_name": "CohenPriva",
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            "institution": "Brown University",
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            "institution": "Brown University",
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    "date_submitted": null,
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    "date_published": "2019-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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