Are conservatives more prejudiced than liberals? 🤔 🎙️A new HateCast episode is online.🎙️ I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Mark Brandt Mark Brandt about the ideology-prejudice link, its roots, and❓about normativity & positionality. #AcademicTwitter podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/netha…

The Communication Science and Biology Interest Group is soliciting nominations for Secretary. We hope you'll consider joining the CSaB team! Looking for (self-)nominations by August 5th. More info here: commscience.org/soliciting-nom…

#JMPSpecialIssue on 'Media and Moral Understanding' guest edited by Carl Plantinga, Allison Eden, Dan Levin, and Murray Smith is out! This special issue focuses on whether and how stories on the screens can lead to moral understanding in viewers. (1/2)

The #JMPSpecialIssue article by Ron Tamborini (MSU) and colleagues discusses the potential utility of distinguishing prosocial and antisocial media content in terms of behaviors that uphold or violate altruistic intuitions. Full paper here: econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/epdf/10.10…

Social cog folks National Communication Association, please consider self-nominating for one of our CSC division awards incl: (1) Distinguished Article Award, (2) Distinguished Book Award, and (3) Outstanding Contributions to Promoting Equity and Inclusion Award. dm me for details! Deadline 9/6 @ 5pm.

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens bit.ly/3XurUIl

I've never felt there was a difference between a physical injury and a mental illness. Folks, it's all health. Plain and simple. And today's new rule ensures insurance plans treat both types of care equally.

A new study led by Rui Wang, Ph.D., where we explored the role of social media users in platform governance. Please let us know if you have any feedback/questions.

Many of us measure altruism and selfishness in dollars and cents. If you want to know how selfless someone is—the logic goes—add up how much money they give to strangers or charity. New work w/ M.J. Crockett complicates this picture: osf.io/preprints/psya… 🧵

The blue bars are articles mentioning Hillary Clinton's email server in the week after the Oct. 2016 Comey letter. The red bars are articles mentioning Trump's Jan. 6 indictment the week after Jack Smith's latest filing was unsealed earlier this month.

We are very excited that the next Moral Media Conference will be held at UBuffalo in April 2025! This year, we have a special submission track in which top papers will receive an auto-R&R decision for a special collection in Journal of Media Psychology! More info & CFP: moralmedia.org/annual-meeting/

Anaëlle Gonzalez - gonzalezanaelle.bsky.social in action, visiting Lindsay Hahn at the U of Buffalo, NY. They collaborate on a paper offering new insights into youth, morality, and social media within the European Research Council (ERC)-funded MIMIc project. Good luck, Anaelle! 🍀

I must once again remind you...

I sent a text to friends this morning & some asked me to share more widely, so here it is 🧵: I woke up just feeling like he doesn’t get to take anything more from me than he’s going to take no matter what I do. If he kills us all, then I die. But he doesn’t get my mind too.

Early career scholars, are you curious about what doing a postdoc is like? Or are you are you someone thinking about hiring a postdoc for your lab? Come to our panel tomorrow morning at 9:30 to learn about the comm postdoc experience. #NCA2024

New ManyBabies large scale replication study fails to find support for a classic finding by Hamlin and colleagues from 2007 that babies prefer characters that show prosocial behavior. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/de…

🎉 The special issue celebrating JoCAM’s 18th birthday it out! The issue brings together 16 commentaries showcasing the incredible diversity and creativity of CAM research and practice from all over the world. 🔓Open access for six months! (1/3) tandfonline.com/journals/rchm2…

Thrilled to announce keynote speakers for #moralmedia25 - Drs. Helena Bilandzic (U Augsburg), Morteza Dehghani (U Southern California), Allison Eden (Michigan State U), & Frederic R. Hopp (Leibniz Institute for Psychology). Submissions are due Feb 2 & can be in any stage of progress!

Lindsay Hahn advocates for translational science principles to bridge the gap between CAM research, public understanding & policy on media’s effects on children by, for instance, prioritizing research addressing caregivers’ and educators’ needs (6/8) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

When people talk about there being "Two Americas" in our country, this The Buffalo News front page is it in a nutshell. I don't begrudge people who are wealthy, but we shouldn't cut SNAP benefits at the same time we are giving tax cuts to those who should pay their fair share.