New preprint! ✨ Do you and your partner have made-up words ("eggy" to mean awkward)? Do you and your bestie have an anecdote you love to tell together (that time one of you tripped over an acorn)? Do you and your closest colleague have a cherished ritual (weekly lunch at "the usual spot")? 🧵
New paper out in Social Psychological and Personality Science with @mohammadatari.bsky.social!
We ask: How does moral diversity shape communities’ responses to norm violations? Across 7 studies (N = 235k+), we find a surprisingly consistent pattern.
tinyurl.com/48tp5k6j
One more week before the start of the Shared Reality Virtual Conference!
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Thrilled to release this year’s program for the Shared Reality Virtual Conference (Mar 24-25)!!
Register here to receive the Zoom link (free!):
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Organized with: @emmamiller.bsky.social @abdoe.bsky.social @changlu-cl.bsky.social
Neat paper finding ~3% socialization of prejudice in german adolescents social networks
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
In an interesting #SPSP2026 talk, @asmiley.bsky.social presented work suggesting that the proportion of out-partisans at one’s church had a curvilinear association with affective polarization—politically balanced churches showed the lowest rates of affective polarization.
In an interesting #SPSP2026 talk, @abdoe.bsky.social presented data showing that assigning participants to watch a debate (versus an informational video, or no video) on rent control made them significantly more intellectually humble.
Thanks so much for coming and for sharing!
If you’re at @spspnews.bsky.social, we would love to see you (yes, you 🫵🏼🤓) there!
Ameliorators and Aggravators of Affective Polarization, an SPSP 2026 symposium from 2-3:10 on Saturday Feb 28th in E353A
Very excited to be chairing this symposium at @spspnews.bsky.social this Saturday at 2 with @abdoe.bsky.social! With Zarnab Zahoor (UIC) and Jan Voelkel (Cornell), we will collectively discuss the factor which can combat or amplify group-based animosity amidst rampant polarization. (Room E353A) 🧵1/6
A little over a week left for blitz applications for the conference!
Please share to those that might be interested :)
We’re excited to announce this year’s Shared Reality Virtual Conference on Mar 24-25!
Register below to receive the Zoom link (free!). Submit a data blitz anytime until Feb 20.
Organized with @abdoe.bsky.social @emmamiller.bsky.social @changlu-cl.bsky.social
The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.
So thrilled to see this paper in print at PSPR—I propose a new theoretical model of self-protection motivation that reimagines how people might think, feel, and act when navigating self-threats. I enjoy this sort of theoretical work & excited to share it!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
✨New preprint! Why do people express outrage online? In 4 studies we develop a taxonomy of online outrage motives, test what motives people report, what they infer for in- vs. out-partisans, and how motive inferences shape downstream intergroup consequences. Led by @felix-chenwei.bsky.social 🧵👇
Montreal! 🇨🇦🍁
Also, a big and heartfelt thank you to the many advisors, mentors, and friends who helped make this lab a reality ❤️
Hi all! Having recently moved to @uh.edu, I’ll be reviewing graduate applications to join the newly minted Worldviews in Motion lab for Fall 2026! Please share with anyone who might be interested 😊
For lab info, check out our (though it’s mostly me atm) website: www.abdoelnakouri.com
What kinds of conversations spark instant connection?
Excited to share my first NYT Guest Essay, with @ericaboothby.bsky.social.
We argue that playful riffing — creating a little world together — forges and deepens relationships through shared reality.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...
📢JOB POSTING: Senior Director for the Center for Enlightened Disagreement (CED).📢
@nourkteily.bsky.social and I seek a strategic leader to help us build the Center (see ensuing post for information about CED).
Target salary range: $125,000-$155,000.
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careers.northwestern.edu/psc/hrnu_er/...
I’ll miss you 🥺❤️
Don’t miss out on applying to this dream post doc! 🫵🏽🔥
This moustache needs to be permanent, that’s for sure
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New preprint! We developed new measurement tools to examine moralization in ~2B Twitter/X & Reddit posts and ~5M traditional media texts.
Key finding: moralization increased markedly on social media from 2013-2021; more than traditional media; associated with multiple user dynamics
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Thrilled to share that my first first-authored publication is officially out (soon to be in press at Social Cognition)! 🚀
"From Data to Discovery: Unsupervised Machine Learning in Social Cognition"
📄 OSF preprint: osf.io/preprints/os...
Are there contexts where expressing intellectual humility (IH) can backfire? On established or morally convicted topics, the positive impacts of perceived high (vs. low) IH on competence and warmth are attenuated or reversed.
Full Paper: doi.org/10.1177/1948...
You might say it was a labour of love…lol, I’ll show myself out
Title page of the paper "Merging in Close Relationships"
Excited to share a new paper in Current Directions on the theme of merging in close relationships, with @emmamcgorray.bsky.social, @erinhughes.bsky.social , and @abdoe.bsky.social! In the paper, we discuss merging in the domains of selves, goals, processing, and reality. tinyurl.com/ynbedzys (1/4)