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Really like this paper! Combines simulations of theoretical models and empirical tests of those models using multiple methods!
If you are interested in belief systems, check this out!
New research just dropped - here we explore narcissism as an adaptive trait for pops experiencing stress + upheaval, + use immig gen status as a naturally occurring experiment, finding immigs + and 1st gen are higher in narc, which dec across subsequent gens journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We're presenting at 1:30! :)
I noticed you're in the session before us so I'm actually going to try to make your talk too. (Also, I think you saw this at SPSP so no worries if you can't make it!)
Our experimental results were less clear: central attitudes were not less responsive to targeted persuasion. This could mean that centrality is non-causally related to stability, or that stability and resistance to targeted persuasion reflect partly different psychological processes. 3/3
Theory suggests attitudes that are central to belief systems should be more stable over time. But methodological limitations have made this hard to test at the individual level of analysis. We measure belief systems within persons and find that more central attitudes are indeed more stable. 2/3
Welp, our reviews are back, so I guess I can make this post now: Coming to MPSA this year? Check out our paper on attitude centrality within political belief systems and attitude stability over time! 1/3 osf.io/preprints/ps...
Thrilled to share that my paper with @mattgrossmann.bsky.social and Caleb Lucas is now out at American Politics Research. In it, we introduce CongressData, a novel repository of 1,300+ variables on the US Congress.
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I just bought a book for my dissertation project. (It's on a topic book disciplines have studied more than psychologists have.) It cost like, 5 iced lattes, and I can't believe I used to do this on the regular when I was in a book discipline... so much sacrificing of caffeine! #gradstudentmath
New paper out in JPSP with @erichehman.bsky.social! We asked: What is the framework underlying our impressions of environments? Our large bottom-up study shows that people pay attention to 4 factors. We’re calling it the Environment Impressions Model: doi.org/10.1037/pspa...
New paper documenting a negative association between childhood exposure to local wealth inequality and inter-class social ties in adulthood. If children have fewer chances to meet peers from different class backgrounds, those divides may persist far beyond childhood.
There is definitely a strong negative correlation between the time I spend updating my website and the updates I actually have *for* my website...
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I stress bake, but also am currently on a health kick... looks like my undergrads are getting cookies and cupcakes this Friday 😅
Thrilled to serve as a Guest Editor for the Political Ideology and Religion collection for Scientific Reports! This Collection welcomes research examining the psychological determinants of political ideology and religion. Please submit by 12/17/26 and reshare! www.nature.com/collections/...
Pleased to see this one out in its JOP-formatted version @thejop.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
For young college graduates, being stuck in a low-paying job that didn’t make use of their degrees, or extended periods of unemployment, upended their entire picture of adulthood. In effect, a gap has opened up between the life that many believed they had been promised and their actual prospects.
the front page of the paper, which can be read in: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/pops.70056
we have a new paper in the April issue of Political Psychology.
in this (admittedly quite lovely) new paper, @stephenvaisey.com, @pablobellode.bsky.social and I make a simple point: using panel data to understand belief change is very hard.
we highlight an empirical intractability in the process:
At your service! 🫡
(Even though, I think that's like... the opposite of the folk punk message...)
(Unplanned, but if you know the topic of the project the combo actually works weirdly well.)
Another banger from my dissertation-writing playlist.
Yes, I’ve written most of this document to a combo of dad rock and folk punk 🤷🏻♀️
Still wondering if inequality is out of control?
Raising a kid in North Carolina, I suspect this test will be failed more times than you can count before she graduates...
Citizens tend to lose faith in meritocracy as inequality rises within their country over time.
#SocialPsyc
I'm not anti-AI. That being said, I worry about offloading writing to it. I had an old mentor who told us, "writing is thinking." As I've gone on, it's become clear that he's right. I worry that if we offload writing to AI, our ability fully grasp our arguments and their implications will atrophy...
Thanks, Eric! Me too.
Update: we got feedback. It was helpful! So we added a study to address it. In summary, threat-conservatism effects reliably emerge *only* at a very narrow intersection of both DV operationalization (terrorism policy) *and* threat stimuli (terrorism threat). Check it out! 👇 osf.io/preprints/ps...
I did not think of this! Good idea. :)
Someone with the instragram handle "trash_pretzel" followed me, and I accepted it without being 100 percent sure who the person was because my first thought was "oh yeah, this does seem like the kind of human being who would be my friend."