Changing Norms Following the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election: The Trump Effect on Prejudice Redux Samuel E. Arnold, Jenniffer Wong Chavez, Kelly S. Swanson, and Christian S. Crandall Abstract Following the 2016 U.S. Presidential election of Donald Trump, prejudice toward groups targeted during his campaign (e.g., Asian Americans, Mexicans) become more acceptable. By contrast, both Trump and Clinton voters reported less prejudice of their own. We conducted a 2024 conceptual replication, measuring perceived norms of prejudice and own-prejudice toward 128 groups, both before (N = 362) and after (N = 261) the U.S. election. We separately measured the negativity of Trump's campaign rhetoric toward these groups (N = 188). Levels of prejudice and perceived norms of prejudice acceptability were mostly stable pre-/post-election, but Trump's negative rhetoric predicted an increase in perceived acceptability of prejudice among targeted groups (replicating the 2016 results), and a rise in selt-reported prejudice in the same groups post-election (reversing the 2016 results). Despite changes in the sociopolitical context between elections, the election of a leading politician who campaigned on prejudice was again associated with increases in the acceptability of prejudice.

Did Trump’s 2024 re-election make it okay to be openly prejudiced? New work from @chriscrandall.bsky.social suggests it did. The more negatively Trump spoke about a group, the more okay it became to express prejudice (and the more prejudiced people were) towards that group after the election.

A regime driven by the desire to create social media content for their hardcore fans on the extreme Right.

It is an immensely dangerous situation. But I don't think this cruel spectacle is an effective way to consolidate authoritarian rule.

How Colorblind and Structural Messages Affect Children's Reasoning About Novel Group Disparities Children experience a variety of messages about racial–ethnic socialization from their parents, teachers, and other sources, who might not answer children's questions about race, or might explicitly...

some parents, esp white parents, fail to answer their children's questions about race or provide colorblind messages ("race is not important"). but are these effective? 🗣️ we find they aren't! structural explanations seem to be more constructive (1/5) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

These are good moments to remember that the CEOs of all the biggest companies in America are happy to go to White House dinners and slap this guy’s back. They do not care about this. Remember this, years from now, when they want you to forget.

So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.

A couple of decades ago, I went to Oxford University to interview for a postdoc-type position with Miles Hewstone. At the time - and for years afterward - I was disappointed I didn’t get the position.

Now, I realize how lucky I was.

According to psychology research, people can abruptly shift left when there is a "threat event" to health care access or threats from pollution and disaster, in a similar manner that the majority went hawkish after 9/11. Anger drives it. This is a rare event that upends the game board of politics.

“Universities are not tech companies. Our role is to foster critical thinking, not to follow industry trends uncritically.”

This whole thread.

“Oh no, someone might eat food!”

Good. That’s good.

“They might buy something they like.”

Cool.

“They might get a treat!”

Also cool.

Turns out I could start a food pantry for students in our department by just asking if we could start a food pantry for students in our department 🤷🏻‍♀️💕

Talked with 3 students this week who are losing SNAP benefits. I’m sure there are many more 😢

It is great that small businesses and local organizations are stepping up to fill gaps in food access while SNAP is frozen, but every story masks a systemic and humiliating failure of the US Government to support its most vulnerable citizens. The GoFundMe-ification of social services makes me sick.

High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why? (Opinion) The connection between education research, policy, and practice is broken. Here’s what it would take to fix it.

High Quality Research Rarely Informs Classroom Practice. Why?

www.edweek.org/leadership/o...

“We found over 35 cases in which the judges have specifically said what the government is providing…false information. It might be intentionally false information, including false sworn declarations time and again," says Ryan Goodman, law professor at New York University.

The slide reads: The introduction of Television to rural Fiji (Becker et al., 2002). Prior to 1995, the rate of dieting and eating disorders in Fiji was extremely low – so low that researchers decided to study it! Western television was introduced in Fiji in 1995 After 3 years of exposure to television… 69% of girls reported dieting to lose weight 74% reported that they felt “too big or too fat” The rate of EAT-26 scores above 20 (i.e., high eating disorder symptomology) increased nearly 17% (from 12.7%), and the rate of self-induced vomiting increased nearly 12% (from 0%) Girls living in households with a television set were 3X more likely to have an EAT-26 score above 20

One of my favorite studies to teach about: Dr. Anne Becker’s work in Fiji, exploring the introduction of Western television for young girls’ body image and eating behaviors (it’s bad) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12042229/

Self-censorship and the ‘spiral of silence’: Why Americans are less likely to publicly voice their opinions on political issues Nearly half of Americans say they feel less free to speak their minds.

More Americans are biting their tongues, not because they don’t care, but because they’re afraid to speak.

From DEI to the war in Gaza, people are more afraid to speak their minds now than during the Red Scare, according to a political scientist who has been conducting surveys.

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"Psychology is meant to study humans, not patterns at the output of biased statistical models." It baffles me this needs to be said, but here we are. There are already viral studies from respected scientists suggesting we can learn something about human cognition from LLMs. Scary & disgraceful.

Are Republicans and Conservatives More Likely to Believe Conspiracy Theories? - Political Behavior A sizable literature tracing back to Richard Hofstadter’s The Paranoid Style (1964) argues that Republicans and conservatives are more likely to believe conspiracy theories than Democrats and liberals...

Is Belief in Conspiracies Theories More Prevalent Among Republicans and Conservatives? A recent article in @polbehavior.bsky.social ‬by Enders, Farhart, Miller, Uscinski, Saunders, and Drochon finds the answer is no: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#polisky 🧵(1/7)

From the abstract:

“When seeing classrooms with stereotypically masculine (vs. neutral) objects, women perceived less safety, which predicted less engagement, interest, and intentions to recruit others.“

Ending Medicaid in order to build concentration camps. I feel, as always, there should be some kind of nonstop barrage of ads across America, every Democrat on every platform saying something like “Republicans want to end Medicaid in words to build concentration camps.”

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

Is red meat bad for your heart? Studies leave plenty to chew over Scientists analyse industry-sponsored research on red meat and heart health

Incredible:

0% of studies funded by the meat industry have found a link between red meat and cardiovascular ill-health.

73% of studies *not* funded by the meat industry have found a link.

www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

A word cloud made from flagged terms in terminated NIH grant proposals. The most prominent words in large font include “trans,” “diverse,” “diversity,” “minority,” “sex,” “expression,” “mental health,” “gender,” and “women.” Other visible terms include “LGBTQ,” “racial,” “underrepresented,” “disability,” “barriers,” “black,” “equity,” “health equity,” “vaccine,” “bias,” and “intersectionality.” The word cloud highlights terms related to identity, inclusion, and marginalized communities.

HAPPY PRIDE 🏳️‍🌈

Under Trump, research using terms like “Trans,” “LGBTQ,” & “Gender identity” is being defunded. These terms reflect real people who deserve science that includes them.

Stand with us to protect LGBTQ+ science from political erasure.
grant-watch.us/nih-data.html
@rcmedphys.bsky.social

Invisible Gorillas in the Mind: Internal Inattentional Blindness and the Prospect of Introspection Training Abstract. Much of high-level cognition appears inaccessible to consciousness. Countless studies have revealed mental processes—like those underlying our choices, beliefs, judgments, intuitions, etc.—w...

A widespread view in psychology is that most cognitive processes are unconscious. In a new paper, I argue that many of these processes may evade consciousness for the same reason the "invisible gorilla" did: People fail to pay attention to them.

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Headline from the independent: Trump gives rambling speech about trophy wives, golf and the 'great late' Al Capone in politically-charged West Point address

Headline from the New York Times: Trump Gives Commencement Address at West Point, Stressing a New Era

Hard to believe they’re talking about the same event.

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

The headline is deeply misleading. You can’t suspend habeas corpus just “for migrants.” As we’ve seen, ICE will pick *anyone* up. If you have legal status but no right to habeas corpus, you’ll have no ability to challenge your detention or deportation. Suspension for some is suspension for all.

Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”