Mental Health and Trauma in Politics: Causes and Consequences Thu, September 11, 12:00 to 1:30pm PDT Democracy in Distress: Psychological Perspectives on Anti-Democratic Sentiment Fri, September 12, 12:00 to 1:30pm PDT Understanding and Correcting Misperceptions Sat, September 13, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT Identity Politics: Measurement, Drivers, and Consequences Sun, September 14, 8:00 to 9:30am PDT

Ask re #APSA2025: The political psychology division has a number of panels that need additional discussants. If you're attending APSA and are willing to serve in such roles please get in touch with @carlynwayne.bsky.social and I. See screenshot for panels. Thanks in advance!

Are you attending APSA 2025 and are interested in Political Psychology? @carlynwayne.bsky.social and I are looking for volunteers to fill chair and discussant slots for the political psychology section panels. If you're interested in chairing/discussing, please let us know! Thanks.

In all seriousness, super grateful for all the amazing mentors, friends and colleagues that made this possible and very excited for the next (tenured) chapter! 🙏☺️

Super happy to announce that, after much toil and effort, @keithschnak.bsky.social and I finally won our weekly rec volleyball tournament! Also, the board of trustees at WashU officially granted me tenure, effective July 1. 🎉

Happy to announce that after weeks of intensive effort, I completed my 25 page single spaced Minerva grant application draft today! ....wait...oh nevermind Minerva doesn't exist anymore? K. At least they sent a one-sentence email. 👍😵‍💫

And we're live at APSR! The article is open access (thank you
WUSTL for the open access fees!), so feel free to check it out. cc: @keithschnak.bsky.social
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

For those who actually want the paper, here is the real working link. The first was just a test! osf.io/zmv85

We hope it is the first of many similar collaborations to come! Check out the pre-print here: osf.io/preprints/so... /fin

We see this work as contribution to the burgeoning behavioral modeling literature and empirical studies in behavioral international relations. In general, this work highlights the complementarity of political psychology and formal theory for understanding conflict dynamics. 6/7

We also show that the effects of anger are self-regulating; anger cannot foster perpetual conflict, as individuals would adjust their expectations over time, thereby neutralizing the anger-triggering effect of bad outcomes. 5/7

While anger often incites more aggressive behavior, it can also reduce the informational impact of a group’s choices, decreasing the opposing group’s aggression due to muted informational repercussions of adverse outcomes. 4/7

In our model, anger arises when agents observe negative outcomes that fall short of initial expectations and then motivates actors to seek punitive actions, as they derive psychological satisfaction from the losses inflicted on others. This has nuanced effects on conflict. 3/7

In it, we develop a formal model of anger in political conflict, integrating the study of strategic conflict dynamics with empirically-grounded behavioral assumptions about how emotions shape preferences. 2/7

What happens when a formal modeler and a political psychologist walk into a room? …Very excited that my paper with @keithschnak.bsky.social, Anger and Political Conflict Dynamics, has been accepted at APSR! 1/7

Let's go! 💙🌹💛🌹💙🌹💛🌹💙

So excited this is finally out in the world. Grateful to the editors, reviewers and countless friends and colleagues who have provided feedback on this project!

🎤 Is this thing on? Any chance this will be less of a dumpster fire than Twitter? Hi👋