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🚨New Paper Alert🚨 Ever wondered why people endorse censoring others? In our new paper accepted at Political Psychology (osf.io/preprints/psya…), we find that people censor ideas they FEEL are harmful and untrue. We then examine ways to reduce willingness to censor 🧵👇

New publication on predictors of #HateSpeech with #German representative survey data by IDZ check it out! NETHATE MSCA Tobias Rothmund IfKW Jena #openaccess #socialpsychology

Episode #2 with Sophie Litvak and Boaz Hameiri on psychological interventions against prejudice.

🚨New WP: Can LLMs predict results of social science experiments?🚨 Prior work uses LLMs to simulate survey responses, but can they predict results of social science experiments? Across 70 studies, we find striking alignment (r = .85) between simulated and observed effects 🧵👇

#machdeinkreuz bei der LTW in #Brandenburg, #Sachsen und #Thüringen. Künstler:innen, die in Sachsen leben und arbeiten, haben Plakate gestaltet, die auf die Wahlen hinweisen. Gerne teilen! machdeinkreuz.de

Was sind alternative Medien und welche Rolle haben sie bei den Thüringer Landtagswahlen gespielt? Diese und andere Fragen durften @InesEngelmann und ich im Podcast Thüringen, was geht?! beantworten. Thanks for having us Thüringer Allgemeine thueringer-allgemeine.de/podcast/articl…

The editorial of this year's special issue is publicly available: "Online hate: A European communication perspective" by Heidi Vandebosch & Tobias Rothmund degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

#DGPs2024 Raus aus der Blase 🫧! Diskutiert heute Nachmittag mit uns über psychologische Ansätze zur Reduktion von Polarisierung und Desinformation. 🕓 16 Uhr im Audimax Universität Wien mit Christine Finn, Vladimir Bojarskich, @LKnochelmann, @fc_stock & LottePummerer

Fast 700 wissenschaftliche und nicht-wissenschaftliche MitarbeiterInnen an Hochschulen in Thüringen haben die politischen Parteien zur Bildung einer stabilen demokratischen Regierung aufgefordert. Dass dies kein Selbstläufer wird haben wir heute gesehen.👇unigegenrechts.org/erklaerung-dem…

Die Wahlen in Thüringen, Sachsen und Brandenburg machen ein Erstarken demokratie- und staatskritischer politischer Kräfte sichtbar. Das KomRex hat vor den Wahlen eine Befragung durchgeführt. Zentrale Ergebnisse👇 #thueringenwahl2024 #sachsenwahl2024 #Brandenburgwahl24

Can we use nudges to reduce hate speech and/or promote civil discourse on social media? Drawing inspiration from mega-studies, we tested the relative effectiveness of seven theoretically grounded nudges on the same population, using a platform that accurately reproduces the

🚨Out in Nature!🚨 Many (eg Trump JimJordan Elon Musk) have accused social media of anti-conservative bias Is this accurate? We test empirically - and it's more complicated than you might think: conservatives ARE suspended more, but also share more misinfo nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our new paper takes you Inside the funhouse mirror factory and explains How social media distorts perceptions of norms 0.1 % of users share 80% of fake news! A tiny proportion of bad actors cause most of the problems and distort the norms. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Via

Unfollowing toxic social media influencers makes people less hostile! In 2 large field experiments, unfollowing a few extreme influencers: -Reduced partisan animosity by 24% -Increased satisfaction with Twitter/X -Led people to share higher-quality news Effects persisting for

Forschende Universität Jena und Universität Trier haben Einstellungen und Wahlverhalten in #Brandenburg, #Sachsen und #Thüringen untersucht. Das Ergebnis bestätigt ein Erstarken der politischen Ränder und zunehmendes Misstrauen gegenüber dem Staat und der Demokratie. ➡️ uni-jena.de/278553/demokra…

Online ahead of print in Annual Review. How to make sense of moral differences across cultures and politics.

Why did Trump beat Harris? Anti-incumbency bias: People voted against the incumbent party in every part of American and every country in the world this year--for the first time in 70+ years! This global trend was a tsunami that swamped ideology, gender, race, age, etc.

I'm proud of this paper out this week (d/l below) Ever wonder what virtue-signalling is? Or what motivates victim-signalling? Or what the rewards of “virtuous-victim signalling” are? The answer that “virtuous-victim signalling” is the resource transfer strategy people high on