
Samantha Moore-Berg
@smooreberg
Assistant Professor @UUtah. I study intergroup conflict and interventions that promote peace. She/Her/Hers.
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http://samanthamooreberg.com 28-03-2018 14:52:11
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Just finished attending/presenting at a great mini-conference on political polarization held at Stanford University organized by polarizationresearchlab.org. Here are my takeaways...

Final Takeaway #8: we should partner with folks in the arts/design space when crafting stimuli or interventions (think: high production value video clips). Treatments would be so much more impactful. E.g., see this great video courtesy of Samantha Moore-Berg bit.ly/3yjZCTz

I am organizing a really cool event on May 4th (12-1ET) with Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard on the future of digital well-being. I will interview 3 guests: dor skuler - ceo of IntuitionRobotics, Daron Sharps - scientist at Pinterst_Pro, Glen Moriarty, ceo of 7Cups Join us! d3.harvard.edu/events/the-fut…

Check out our exciting new research lead by Roman Angel Gallardo! 🧵👇

How can we reduce cruelty online & in policy-making? Samantha Moore-Berg, Boaz Hameiri, and @romangallardo_ found that watching a video of Muslims reading & ridiculing mean tweets reduced dehumanization (with some side effects). Read the pre-print here: ms.spr.ly/6010gPMwe


Some of our toxic us vs them animosity is based on illusions. Research by Samantha Moore-Berg and colleagues found that “Democrats and Republicans equally dislike and dehumanize each other but think that the levels of prejudice and dehumanization held by the outgroup party are

PRL is looking for up to 5 postdocs for 2024-2025! We welcome applicants with strong stats and data skills from across the social sciences. Postings will be at either Stanford or UPenn. Accepting apps through 1/15/24. More information and how to apply 🎓 polarizationresearchlab.org/hiring/

Thanks Abigail Marsh. Boaz Hameiri led this, along with Samantha Moore-Berg + Celia Guillard. I'm deeply grateful to Boaz and Samantha for the important ways they have carried Emile's light forward, taken on leadership putting science to work for peace, dreamed up new paths forward.

Thanks for sharing, Matt Lieberman🇺🇦


Excited to share Samantha Moore-Berg and my new Science & Society article in Trends in Cognitive Sciences on meta-perception correction interventions. And it's with free access until April 9!

📣 New book alert! 📣 Introducing Psychological Intergroup Interventions: Evidence-based Approaches to Improve Intergroup Relations (edited by Eran Halperin, Boaz Hameiri, Rebecca Littman) tinyurl.com/intergroupinte… Discount code for 20% off: AFL04 More info 👇


Congrats to Samantha Moore-Berg for starting the Peace & Intergroup Conflict Lab at the University of Utah! The mission: to understand what drives us to intergroup conflict and develop ways to intervene in order to fight inequality, promote peace, and foster social change. Proud of you!


🚨 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).



Virtual contact between U.S. non-Muslim and Muslim students from MENA and SE Asia regions demonstrates that online interactions can effectively reduce prejudice and dehumanization. Shira Hebel-Sela Boaz Hameiri Samantha Moore-Berg Eran Halperin nature.com/articles/s4427…

My second publication is a field experiment published Communications Psychology with Boaz Hameiri, Linda Tropp, Samantha Moore-Berg, Rebecca Saxe Eran Halperin and Emile Bruneau ; testing a virtual contact intervention to reduce intergroup conflict: nature.com/articles/s4427…
