Resharing in light of the upcoming First International Network of Trust meeting in Genoa. As ever, happy to add people and hope to see many of you soon! go.bsky.app/CLK2iNM

📣 Are you a psychologist with an interest and passion for #ScienceCommunication research and/or practice in Germany? Join our newly founded DGPs interest group #PsyComm! 📣

I am hiring a new Lab Manager to help run the NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation. We start reviewing apps on MAY 1st and it pays over $58,000. Please share with anyone who might be interested! Please apply here: apply.interfolio.com/166620 See more details below:

More great #trustresearch!

Lineage in academia is more than what school and who trained you. As a team sport, academic ideas necessarily come from somewhere. My thought lineage is rooted heavily in Tyler and Mayer but also Holling, Ostrom, and Baldwin. Unpacking them is a fun, intellectually reinvigorating mental break.

Big day :) #trustresearch

How can we rebuild trust in psychology, law, and institutions? Join us for the Friday Plenary, where Drs. Fettig, Hamm, Perillo, and Neal will discuss the erosion of public confidence in government and legal systems and ways to restore faith in justice. #TrustInJustice #PsychologyAndLaw #apls2025

Fun story on some recently published work coming out of the #TRUSSTLab. sociology.msu.edu/news/student...

Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.

Job negotiation wishlist: 1) Please don't make me use Outlook 2) Please don't make me use Teams

Hah! I thought that the article title would post. Important context for my musing here. :) Rapidly diverging public trust in science in the United States.

Interesting new piece on #trustinscience at PUS. The authors argue that existing theory falls flat in explaining this and it left me wondering if this is—on average—an individual-level motivated trust/threat response for liberals as well as conservatives. doi.org/10.1177/0963...

New #TrustResearch Paper Drop Day! Schulz finds that, in response to the pandemic, pro-incumbent partisans are more motivated to offer their trust. Subsequent declines trust however were equally explained by increased social (not individual) vulnerability across parties. doi.org/10.1080/2151...

New TRUSST Lab Paper Drop Day If trust is a willingness to accept vulnerability, it’s important to know what people feel vulnerable to. In multilevel institutions like #highred, we suggest that a place to start is capturing and cataloguing experienced harm. #trustresearch doi.org/10.1007/s107...

This one is going on the CV :) #AppleMusicReplay

An #AcademicSky lesson I’m learning and wanted to share. As a rule (with exceptions!) don’t focus your energy on trying to un/remake systems in #highered. Most of them are the elephant paths trod by other academics who didn’t quite have the time or training needed to make better calls. Instead…

Hahaha :) Content Analysis: His writing veers between academic precision and casual banter, like a professor who just found out he can wear sneakers to class—flexible but still on-point. blueskyroast.com

Crisis framing activates fatalism (a sense the world is beyond repair), which makes people apathetic. A far better strategy for inspiring action is to show that change is not only desirable but also possible www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/opinion/public-health-crisis-america.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

UPDATE: After a day of banging on it, I think I have most of our extended abstract pretty solid. The intro and set up feel nice and coherent. The punchline, however, remains an inscrutable cluster f**k…

Looks right to me :) scholargoggler.com

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty. Trust Researcher: the optimist has more benevolence but the pessimist is more competent.

Quick reminder for early career folks making these decisions. Before you take on service, know that if they didn’t value before you did the work, they won’t value you after. That may not change whether you do the work, but know that you can’t work your way to value. #academicsky

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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. There is nothing as invigorating as getting to talk trust with an interdisciplinary group of trust researchers. Thanks to everyone who joined!

Interesting conversation on the place of science in society on here today. #academicsky

Reality has a well known liberal bias, and it shouldn't be the responsibility of scientists to hide it

In academia, mental health is your oxygen mask. Like on an airplane, we’re reminded to put on our own mask first before helping others. What daily practices help you prioritize mental health and promote a healthier, supportive research environment for all? 🧪#AcademicSky

#Academicsky reviewers, what are the hills that you’ll die on but also kinda have to admit are probably not really that important in the grand scheme? Mine is using “trust” as a substitute for “belief”. Talking about someone’s “trust” *in* another’s “ability” is like nails on a chalkboard…

Welcome to BlueSky! Just sharing a starter pack of (mostly) academics doing trust research. Happy to add people I haven’t found yet! #psychsky #polisky #academicsky #blackademicsky #crimsky go.bsky.app/CLK2iNM

Haven’t made it past the abstract yet, but this kicked off a fun trust research challenge. I totally buy this finding but I can’t explain it in terms of vulnerability. How does the trustee’s wealth signal protection of the trustor’s vulnerability? doi.org/10.1177/1948...

Now more than ever community and support is needed. That’s why @sylviapperry.bsky.social and I are happy to solicit applications for the 3rd annual CASBS Summer Institute on Diversity. If you're a pre-tenure prof studying diversity, apply & repost! Apps due: Dec 11 casbs.stanford.edu/call-applica...

Developmental psychopathology friends I need your help: Looks like I will be completely revamping and taking over teaching our course (advanced undergrad + grad, NOT in a clinical program). Planning to take a dimensional + lifespan approach. Pls share syllabi if you are willing! #PsychSciSky

Living that concert dream… -Doors at 530 -Must see band on and off by 7 -Merch table, meet the guitarist, and out by 830 -Bed by 10

I’m supposed to do this in 110 characters? :) 1- applying @ldeblok.bsky.social’s argument about trust as an insulator against risk to private healthcare. 2- showing that conceptualizing trust as the trustee’s capital is both latent in most trust work and how trust research supports oppression.

Black Men In Psych has finally arrived on Bluesky! We're here to uplift, promote, & highlight the successes, visibility, & authenticity of Black men in various psychology & psychiatry fields. Connect w/ us as we amplify the voices of Black men in psychological science. #BlackMenInPsych ✊🏾 #Psychsky

New starter pack drop day!

Keep coming back here wanting to have something interesting to say about trust research in this moment but what I’m struck by is how little new there is to say. Humans are vulnerable. We hate feeling it. And when we do, we lean into whatever relationships assuage that.

A sobering empirical piece in JAMA. Homicide has long been THE LEADING CAUSE of maternal/peripartum death. Here they show: * restrictions on divorce * restrictions on abortion… both correlate with pregnancy homicide (albeit differently, depending on age/race) 🛟🩺 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I am mobilizing + giving free weekly science communication workshops in a private community for scientists + media who want to join the battle vs misinformation. I wasn't planning on doing this so soon but this is urgent. ALL scientists "hard" + "soft" DM with your credentials for details.

Welcome to BlueSky! Reposting a starter pack of people working on #trustresearch for those interested. Lots of great thinkers on the list!

Dunno who needs this heading into this week but here it is anyway. #letsfinishthis youtu.be/6roE_lgywEU

New Journal of #TrustResearch Issue Drop Day! Five articles (and an editorial) explore trust and distrust in regulation, the nature of political, (in)stability in social trust, moderation within the ABI Model of trustworthiness, and focal vulnerability. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjtr20/1...

Opinion | Professors Should Discuss Elections in Class Survey results showing that most professors don’t plan to discuss the upcoming election in the classroom are troubling, Clarissa Unger writes. #HigherEd #EDUSky #AcademicSky #Election2024 #Vote bit.ly/4fdah6c

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