Very astute piece by @anniekarni.bsky.social on how Democrats are embracing working-class candidates. My research lab has multiple ongoing projects on this very idea, so stay tuned for some empirical data coming soon! www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...

🚨New Paper🚨 Elected officials are increasingly extreme. E.g., a recent analysis of 84,000 state-level candidates found that extreme candidates are now winning at the highest rates in 30 years. Why are people increasingly drawn to extreme candidates?

Large Language Models Do Not Simulate Human Psychology arxiv.org/pdf/2508.06950

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand: $678M raised through those spam tactics $282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies. $11M to actual campaigns (1.6%) The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

🚨Free data alert!! 🚨 Please share. Large new dataset of Amazon product reviews, including full text and photos and product characteristics, with individual *reviews labeled as fake reviews*. I believe this is the first publicly available data of this kind. github.com/bretthollenb...

A big obstacle of studying fake reviews is that the ground truth is missing. Which review is fake and which is organic? Brett and coauthors provide a dataset that contains the ground truth for individual reviews using a novel method developed over several papers. A really valuable resource!

I am looking to recruit a postdoc to join my lab next fall, & work on 2 projects focused on online mobilization with social media datasets. If anyone knows of someone with computational skills (network analysis, NLP, etc.) who is looking for a postdoc- have them reach out to me.

🚨Preprint alert🚨 How does affective polarization change democracy? Lots of pubs study how AP affects trust, democratic norms, inter-partisan attitudes, and participation. We (w/ @polpsychjoe.bsky.social, @lilymasonphd.bsky.social) examine a vital assumption this research seems to rely on: 1/6🧵

In TIME today, Jake Teeny and I share our take on AI-driven persuasion that uses your personal data to craft messages built just for you. time.com/7296719/ai-p...

🚨 working paper (w. @morganlcj.bsky.social @markuswagner.bsky.social): Protesters are not judged equally - even if tactics of groups are similar. We ran an experiment in 🇩🇪 testing how people react to farmers vs. climate activists blocking roads. What we find is disturbing: osf.io/preprints/os...

At the CredibilityLab (currently hosting Aspredicted and Researchbox) we have a new platform in the works, AsCollected, that will help with this. We welcome input from experienced parties. Signup for alpha or beta testing or announcement of release at AsCollected.Org

A Tinder Test of Democratic Norms💋 New paper in @thejop.bsky.social with @bertous.bsky.social We rely on a visual conjoint experiment, cross-sectional data, & panel data to show that affective polarization drives the normalisation of the far right among the centre-right 🇬🇧🇪🇸 doi.org/10.1086/736698

🛎️New WP with @morganlcj.bsky.social @timallinger.bsky.social and @danbischof.bsky.social Against the surge of conjoints and other hypothetical experiments in relation to democratic backsliding, we study the consequences of using hypotheticals versus real-world scenarios. osf.io/preprints/os...

Ep 107! @mhusseinlab.bsky.social shares his research on the cues that signal open-mindedness and whether people like it when others listen to opposing political views. Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1... Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0B6L... Web: opinionsciencepodcast.com/episode/rece...

A new and fresh paper calls for a fresh start on a new platform. Hi y'all! 👋 Check out my paper with @spillersas.bsky.social and @krajbichlab.bsky.social - we look at the multi-faceted role of attention in opportunity cost neglect, using eye-tracking + computational modeling. Read more at the link!

🚨🚨 I’m looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join my lab at Harvard's Psychology Department starting Fall 2025 🚨📣 Please share widely and spread the word to interested candidates! 🧵 🗓 Application review begins April 30 Apply here: rb.gy/k7q9kf (1/2)

In a quasi-experimental survey with 59,508 participants across 63 countries, we tested 11 behavioral interventions designed to promote climate change mitigation. Our goal was to understand which interventions were most effective at encouraging climate-friendly behaviors—on a country-by-country basis

Excited to see this in print! It speaks to a number of social science literatures—protest effectiveness, repression, propaganda, stereotypes & morality, gender & politics, and disparate treatment between & within identity categories.

✨New preprint✨How does repeated exposure to transgressions online shape moral judgment? Results show two competing processes: 💠We get desensitized = ⬇️ wrong 💠Transgression seems more infamous =⬆️wrong Relative strength of each may predict outrage to viral transgressions w/ @danieleffron.bsky.social

🚨NEW PAPER ALERT🚨 A field experiment w/ 13M federal student loan borrowers at risk of delinquency shows we can meaningfully reduce delinquencies with well-designed reminders. Work led by Rob Kuan (of Wharton). Read paper in @pnas.org: www.pnas.org/doi/epub/10.... What reminder ingredients matter?🧵

(1/4) Our new JEP:G paper dives into how moral values and misinformation spread on social media: media.mola-lab.org/file/1737039...

Check out this exciting new paper on receptivity to AI!

what counts as breaking a rule? you might think this q is easy, but people actually integrate signals from morality, legality, punishability, and normativity to figure it out, new preprint w/ @jowylie.bsky.social & dries bostyn osf.io/preprints/ps... #psychscisky #cognition #socpsyc #philsky

Check out this very exciting paper!

How do consumers react to political ads that meddle in the primaries of the other party? Dems and Reps spent $53M+ on ads helping extreme members of the other party in primaries. Their goal? To boost their own chances in the general election by helping candidates who might are easier to defeat.

New paper on informed consent! I’m so proud of this work led by @rachelschlund.bsky.social. We show that regardless of how clueless WE feel about the terms we agree to when signing a contract or clicking accept, others assume we knew what we were getting into. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is super exciting! JCR will now be accepting Registered Reports and Commentaries!

"[Consumption vocabulary] helps you understand details and identify what *you* like." Of course @dieworkwear.bsky.social is right - and there's science behind it! My favorite paper on quilts (West, Brown, & Hoch, 1996, JCR): People who developed a quilt vocabulary had more-consistent preferences.

Just published on APSR First View: "The Vietnam Draft Lottery and Whites’ Racial Attitudes: Evidence from the General Social Survey" by Donald Green and Oliver Hyman-Metzger. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Not every study needs to have a power analysis, but every study needs a sample size justification. I discuss 6 approaches, and 6 ways to think about which effect sizes are of interest in the study you are planning. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

We're excited to announce the new team of AEs and ERB members at JCR starting in January of 2025. Thank you to the current team for everything you've done for the journal and thank you to the new team for signing on! consumerresearcher.com/2025-associa...

Can we reduce polarization with empathy? Just published a new (replication) study with @mrooduijn.bsky.social and Matthijs Gillissen showing that different components of empathy have quite different effects [1/5] www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

And the very incomplete part 2: go.bsky.app/43FXWwj If you aren’t part of either and you are political psychology or adjacent let me know and I’ll add

🚨New Preprint🚨 *Moral Stereotyping in Large Language Models* We show that LLMs are inaccurate in estimating the moral values of diverse cultures: LLMs stereotype cultures in predictable ways. Led by my star Ph.D. student, Aliah Zewail osf.io/preprints/ps...

This is a very good and important paper for scholars of race and identity. Also just one of those papers you read that makes you wonder how this wasn’t done much sooner. Highly recommend it.

How do consumers react to political ads that meddle in the primaries of the other party? Dems and Reps spent $53M+ on ads helping extreme members of the other party in primaries. Their goal? To boost their own chances in the general election by helping candidates who might are easier to defeat.

I've created a Starter Pack for academics in Behavioral Marketing. Feel free to nominate anyone whom I might have missed. go.bsky.app/8mGBELg

A great new starter pack spearheaded by @mhusseinlab.bsky.social! go.bsky.app/SrL8hra

New lab paper! In a registered report, Jesse Reid and I looked at the relationship between right-wing authoritarianism (RWA), social dominance orientation (SDO), and implicit/explict attitudes in a large sample of participants from @projectimplicit.bsky.social. online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Psychological inoculation against misinformation does not appear to transfer to real posts or synthetic posts using other misinformation techniques osf.io/preprints/ps... #polisky #polpsych #socpsych #misinformation

Just published on APSR First View: "Gendered Perceptions and the Costs of Political Toxicity: Experimental Evidence from Politicians and Citizens in Four Democracies" by Gregory Eady and Anne Rasmussen. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

How do we react to people who are receptive to opposing political views? Read coverage of my research below 👇 business.columbia.edu/research-bri...

👀 Almost three years ago, Hal Hershfield, Oded Netzer, and I started assembling a Financial Decision Making issue for the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research. That issue is now live! You can access it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/jacr/202... A 🧵(1/n)

Hello BlueSky! First post to those interested in #decisionmaking #jdm #behavioralecon #consumerbehavior 🔥 SJDM Conference registration is open 🔥 Conference will be Nov 17-20 in San Fran. More info and register today at www.sjdm.org! Early registration ends Nov 5 and fees increase.

"Trump’s norm-violating rhetoric...does not alter attitudes toward democracy as a preferred system but does reduce support for inclusiveness and equality among his supporters" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Replicates and extends our study conducted in 2020 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...