🚨Now published in AESP 🚨. Learn about how feelings of victimhood shapes morality and conflict. By myself and the awesome Kurt Gray For an overview see thread below. Article Open Access until July 14th. Download now! authors.elsevier.com/a/1j90bErgEWa%…

[Please retweet!] My paper, 'Cognitive Representations of Social Relationships and their Developmental Origins" has been accepted at Behavioral and Brain Sciences! I'm thrilled to be able to engage with people's commentary! Please consider writing one! osf.io/preprints/psya…

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Research Report 3: 𝐖𝐡𝐲 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 & 𝐝𝐲𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐜 𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐚-𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 by: Jeff Lees (@leesplez.bsky.social) Mina Cikara Jamie Druckman (Harvard University) 🔗doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

🚨 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).

Why is ALL (or at least much) of the media coverage not about this?

Happy birthday Sylvia

mood of the next 10 days

Excited to announce that Columbia's Department of Psychology is hiring a tenure-track faculty member! Emphasis on multi-method expertise and research programs that complement current strengths in the Department. Come join us! Review begins Nov. 1: apply.interfolio.com/157376

Most Americans think their candidate will win the election. Partisans disagree on whether the candidates *will* concede if they lose. A majority of all partisans believe the losing candidate *should* concede...but when? Read our new Path to 2024 report! prlpublic.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/reports/Octobe…

Is our attraction to extremes a mark of our era, or a natural tendency that has always existed? We don’t answer this question here, but we do show other very cool stuff 😅

Oh this is dark

We're just supposed to like sit here and work?

Deeply grateful to the wonderful crowd of participants of the conference "Undereating the attraction to political extremes" that we proudly hosted at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, co-organized with Amit Goldenberg.

Our new preprint on the historical psychology of prejudice is out!

🎆 POSTDOC POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT🎆 Nour Kteily and I are hiring a postdoc for our new #CenterForEnlightenedDisagreement. Primary criterion is research excellence for understanding how individuals/groups can navigate conflict constructively. Due: 12/16 facultyrecruiting.northwestern.edu/apply/MjI3Nw==

Join us--Yphtach Lelkes, Sean Westwood, and Shanto Iyengar-- at our meeting in SLC on May 1-2 to share new work on democratic attitudes. This is small conference with great papers and discussion. Grad students/postdocs welcome. Travel funded. Apply by 12/31! polarizationresearchlab.org/annual-meeting/

🧵 1/ New study alert! We explored how childhood violence exposure shapes implicit social biases for novel groups and mental health in young adults. Does it matter who the perpetrator was? Turns out, yes. Let’s dive in! 🧵👇 (pre-print: osf.io/preprints/psya…)

Giving people multiple options for charitable donations can increase both the likelihood of donating and the amount donated, research by Weisz and Mina Cikara suggests: buff.ly/TVZME0R