Thrilled & grateful to launch the Psychology In Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) Lab @NYUAbuDhabi: tinyurl.com/4dw6h29r We'll be looking at how phenomena at the societal level (from polarization to extreme inequality) reflect & shape psychological functioning. Stay tuned for research & events!

✨Who says dreams can’t come true?✨ 5 yrs ago, I emailed Jennifer Sheehy-Skeffington asking if she'd take me on as a PhD student. She rightly declined. 5yrs later, she is taking me on as a postdoc in Psychology in Political & Economic Systems (PIPES) lab at NYU Abu Dhabi (probably shouldn't have)!

🌍Do all nations believe they’re superior—or do some feel inferior? Western social sciences claimed the first. But Fanon & Memmi argued colonization by the West left many in the Global South with colonial mentality—internalized oppression. 🧵Findings from our 45-country study:

🎉 Just published in Nature Human Behavior 🎉 Do liberals or conservatives in the US trust scientists more? You might assume it's liberals, but studies often fail to consider the diversity of scientific disciplines! 🔬 nature.com/articles/s41... [1/6]🧵

Excellent study by @vukasin.bsky.social (2025) finds US liberals trust scientists more than conservatives across all fields. Despite generally high trust levels overall, the gap is largest for climatologists. 5 interventions failed to increase trust, suggesting attitudes resistant to interventions 🧪

To academics in Netherlands (and especially Amsterdam), we are organizing a symposium *Social sciences and the System: Challenging or Upholding the Status Quo* that includes John Jost, Enzo Rossi and Marija B. Petrović on 18th February in Amsterdam! register here: forms.gle/NSzoNxu2EKMf...

Directory of free, open psychological datasets docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Our latest research on who is likely to harass scientists has been featured in two recent interviews! 📰✨ 📌 PsyPost: Psychopathy, cynicism & threat perception linked to harassment www.psypost.org/heightened-p... 📌 Folia: Who is behind hate mail to scientists? www.folia.nl/en/wetenscha...

In the past several years, and especially in the first few years of COVID-19, scientists have experienced harassment - from unwanted emails and doxxing to death threats and even lynching attempts. But who wants to harm scientists? Find out in our new paper just published in Scientific Reports! 🎉💥✨

This has to be the project filled with the most innocence and purity I've ever taken part in. It all started ab 6 years ago while we were still undergraduates and were starting our very first research project on analytic/intuitive thinking and conspiracy theories... 1/2

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