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To cite this software, please cite:

Seib, Drew, Anand E. Sokhey, and Todd Makse. 2026. "Talking Politics: An Online Platform for Designing Social Process Tracing Experiments."

You can also check out the following working papers using the SPTE design:

Makse, Todd and Maria Ovalle. 2026. "Dealbreaker Heuristics and the Social Transmission of Information." PDF

Clasic Works on the DPTE Design

Lau, Richard R., and Redlawsk, David P. 1997. "Voting Correctly." American Political Science Review 91 (September): 585–599.

Lau, Richard R., and Redlawsk, David P. 2001b. "Advantages and Disadvantages of Cognitive Heuristics in Political Decision Making." American Journal of Political Science 45 (October): 951–971.

Lau, Richard R., and Redlawsk, David P. 2001a. "An Experimental Study of Information Search, Memory, and Decision Making During a Political Campaign." In J. Kuklinski (ed.), Political Psychology and Public Opinion (pp. 136–159). New York: Cambridge University Press.

Andersen, David J., Redlawsk, David P., and Lau, Richard R. 2019. "The Dynamic Process Tracing Environment (DPTE) as a Tool for Studying Political Communication." Political Communication 36(2): 303–314.