Philipp Chapkovski

Lotharstr. 65

47057 Duisburg

I am a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science, in the POLITSOLID ERC project.

My current research project concerns information avoidance: a puzzling sociological phenomenon when people prefer knowing less information, even if the rational behavior dictates the opposite. In particular I am interested in interaction of information avoidance with affective polarization, when people discriminate against those who hold opposite political views.

selected publications

JBEF

Conducting interactive experiments on Toloka

Philipp Chapkovski

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance Mar 2023

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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the popularity of online behavioral experiments grew steadily. Due to lockdowns, online studies often became the only available option for behavioral economists, sociologists, and political scientists. The use of the most well-known platforms, such as mTurk, was so intensive that the quality of data was harmed. However, even before the pandemic-induced quality crisis, online studies were limited in scope; real-time interactions between participants were hard to achieve due to the large proportion of drop-outs and issues with creating stable groups. Using the relatively unknown crowdsourcing platform, Toloka, we successfully ran several multi-round interactive experiments. Toloka’s sizeable online population, fairly low exposure of participants to sociological surveys and behavioral studies, and convenient application programming interface can make it a useful addition to the toolbox of an experimentalist who needs to run behavioral studies that require real-time interactions between participants.
JBEE

Information avoidance in a polarized society

Philipp Chapkovski

Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics Mar 2022

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R&P

Solid support or secret dissent? A list experiment on preference falsification during the Russian war against Ukraine

Philipp Chapkovski, and Max Schaub

Research & Politics Mar 2022

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