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New paper out in Journal of Consumer Research How do consumers react to political ads that meddle in the primaries of the opposing party? In the most recent elections, Democrats did something strange.

👇Brief summary of our new Psych Review paper on social class disparities in education

New pre-print! Want to find ways to heal partisan divisions? Make conversations more self-disclosing. Thread below 👇 osf.io/preprints/psya…

We've got a new working paper asking whether first listening to someone facilitates greater persuasion in interpersonal dialogue. See David Broockman's thread for more detail. Comments welcome!

Preprint alert! After 4 years, I’m super excited to share work with Charley Wu (@thecharleywu.bsky.social) Sam Gershman Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI on the rise and fall of technological development in virtual communities in #OneHourOneLife #ohol 🧵👇 doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

In 2 digital field experiments, we found that unfollowing hyperpartisan influencers on Twitter: -Reduced partisan animosity by 24%—with effects persisting for 6 months! -Increased satisfaction with Twitter -Led people to share higher-quality news doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

We need to teach people to be critical not just of the news, but also of their minds. Our new paper in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General finds: - people were more likely to believe and share politically aligned news over news that was actually true, even when the

🎉 My dissertation research on who feels they contribute to society is out in JPSP! 🎉 - 📄 paper APA Journals ➡️ psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/ps… - 🚨 American Psychological Association press release ➡️ apa.org/news/press/rel… 🧵👇(1/12)

🚨 Strengthening Americans’ Democratic Attitudes🚨 For the last 4 years, we crowdsourced and tested ideas for ⬇️ antidemocratic attitudes & partisan animosity. A 🧵 on all papers, published/IP Science Magazine (🆕tinyurl.com/sdcsci🆕), PNASNews (2x), Nature Human Behaviour (2x).

How do internet search algorithms shape our attitudes and policy support on important social issues? In a new paper, we found that prevalent algorithms portray climate change based on local climate attitudes, rather than actual climate change impacts: rdcu.be/dZ0I6

The Management Division at Columbia Business School is excited to announce the Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow position! Please help spread the word! They will receive a research budget and collaborate with faculty. See the job ad below, and please reach out with any questions.

We're hiring! The Behavior, Culture, and Inequality Lab in University of Michigan's (University of Michigan) Department of Psychology is *hiring a full-time Lab Manager* to start in August 2025. Please share widely! Full details are here (applications due March 15): careers.umich.edu/job_detail/258…

#OpenAccess from our new issue - Shared Demographic Characteristics Do Not Reliably Facilitate Persuasion in Interpersonal Conversations: Evidence from Eight Experiments - cup.org/4h7kO3U - David Broockman, Josh Kalla, Nicholas Ottone (Yale University), Erik Santoro & Amanda Weiss

NEW WORKING PAPER Many people warn that LLMs pose threats to democratic societies through their persuasive capabilities. How should we evaluate these claims? In this project, we discuss limitations of existing evaluations and present our own framework (1/6)

Want to add an LLM chatbot to your Qualtrics surveys? Here's a step-by-step guide showing exactly how to do this with AWS Bedrock joshuakalla.github.io/llm_persuasion/