Je Hoon Chae (Jĕ·Hōōn)

PhD Student, Communication

MS Student, Statistics & Data Science

University of California, Los Angeles

My research examines how people learn political information, when it changes their attitudes, and how long those changes last.

I also study how AI can make high-quality information more accessible to underrepresented populations, alongside questions of causal inference with noisy and high-dimensional data.

Lab affiliation: Coalas Lab (PI: Elisa Kreiss)

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Selected publications

  1. Hold That Thought: Enhancing the Durability of Fact-Checking Effects through Low-Cost Accuracy Reminders

    Je Hoon Chae, Tim Groeling, Hyunjin Song

    Political Communication2026 · Online first

    Can low-cost accuracy reminders make the effects of fact-checking last longer?

  2. Time is the Fire in Which Message Effects Burn: Decay and Sustenance of Correction Effects Over Time

    Je Hoon Chae, Tim Groeling, Hyunjin Song

    Journal of Communication2026 · 76(1), 36–48

    Correction effects largely fade within two weeks; accuracy reminders help them persist.

    Top Student Paper · ICA Political Communication Division, 2025

  3. Perceiving AI Intervention Does Not Compromise the Persuasive Effect of Fact-Checking

    Je Hoon Chae, David Tewksbury

    New Media & Society2026 · 28(1), 191–211

    Across three experiments, fact-checks improved truth discernment even when readers knew AI was involved.

    Top Paper · NCA Political Communication Division, 2024

  4. Perceiving as biased but nevertheless persuaded? Effects of fact-checking news delivered by partisan media

    Je Hoon Chae, Sang Yup Lee, Hyunjin Song

    Political Psychology2024 · 45(1), 69–89

    Fact-checks from partisan outlets can correct beliefs even when readers perceive them as biased.

News

  • Article “Hold That Thought” published in Political Communication.

  • Grant UCLA Initiative to Study Hate research grant ($7,000).

  • Talk Political Psychology Lab, UCLA (PI: David O. Sears).

Earlier updates

  • Grant Awarded by the Hub for Research on Islamophobia, Anti-Arab Hate, and Antisemitism at UCLA ($20,000).

  • Article “Time is the Fire” published online in Journal of Communication.

  • Award Won the Top Student Paper Award in Political Communication Division at ICA’2025 in Denver, CO.

Personal

Going up a mountain track, I fell to thinking.

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Approach everything rationally, and you become harsh. Pole along in the stream of emotions, and you will be swept away by the current. Give free rein to your desires, and you become uncomfortably confined. It is not a very agreeable place to live, this world of ours.

When the unpleasantness increases, you want to draw yourself up to some place where life is easier. It is just at the point when you first realise that life will be no more agreeable no matter what heights you may attain, that a poem may be given birth, or a picture created.

Natsume Sōseki Kusamakura
草枕 · The Three-Cornered World
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