A thousand times yes. You can’t publish 40 papers a year and have thought at all deeply about each one. And you can’t run a massive, impersonal lab and produce happy researchers who want to stay in science. The work and the workers suffer. Do less, better!

Presidents don't float policies that are opposed by the mass public 86 - 9. This is not normal.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sT9... "...but I suspect that we are now experiencing the coming to the surface of a triple-prong sickness that has been lurking within our body politic from its very beginning. That is the sickness of racism, excessive materialism and militarism."

“Trump is the first president not to issue an official proclamation recognizing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day since President Reagan made it a holiday.”

Where are the leaders who inspire us to vision of a better future rather than try to convince us making that trade offs which sacrifice core values is the way to go?

How much more in your face can it be? "Why are you asking me for my paperwork?" "Because of your accent." "You have an accent too." "Where were you born sir?" "Where were you born at?" "Put your hands behind your back."

I never imagined 20 years ago that I'd be quoted in an article with this title, but here we are www.newsweek.com/donald-trump...

I’ve been studying civil rights protests for 20 years. With new mobilization against Trump’s agenda, I’m sharing a thread summarizing my research on how nonviolent & violent actions by 1960s activists and police influenced media, elites, public opinion & voters. 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

"You who are in the field of psychology have given us a great word. It is the word maladjusted...It is a good word; certainly it is good that in dealing with what the word implies you are declaring that destructive maladjustment should be destroyed." www.apa.org/topics/equit...

Some of the time it’s not a question of law or policy. It’s just basic morality that a literal human baby understands.

The Islamic regime has killed 12k people in 5 days. Iranians are hurting; we’ve been hurting for 150 years. If you have an Iranian colleague, check on them. No unsolicited advice—just kindness and space. They may kill our brothers and sisters, but never the dream of freedom.

BREAKING: We've found 40+ cases of agents using banned chokeholds & other moves that can cut off breathing People have had seizures. They passed out. “I felt like I was going to die” said 16-yr-old citizen Admin won't say whether any agents have been punished www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Great post. If you guys don't know Andrew (alltime top 10 friendly person), calling people "underachievers" is a major diss

I wrote a piece with Nick Hobson in Harvard Business Review (@hbr.org) on how leaders can use empathy wisely to help their employees feel supported while benefitting their own well-being. Check it out and share let me know what you think. hbr.org/2026/01/five... #empathy #leadership

I can’t believe that memo. Searchlight Institute is way behind the times. Abolish ICE is the most popular position now. Their attempt to compare it to defund the police, which never even reached 30% support, is misleading and insane

Early-bird registration for our Moral Psychology pre-conference at SPSP ends Jan 22! Register here: spsp.org/events/annua... Don't miss this incredible lineup of speakers (plus some terrific data blitz talks and posters) and networking with this fantastic community! See you in Chicago next month!

NEW: 6 federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned today because of DOJ's push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter www.nytimes.com/2026/01/13/u...

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this: America's problems are solved problems. Just not here. What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

New paper published as ASAP by @megan-elaine-burns.bsky.social about how goal misalignment with work can spark positive union attitudes! #PsychSciSky #SocialPsyc

🧵 I suspect that there are a lot of people out there, who are deeply troubled by the actions of ICE, but are also uncomfortable with the response of activists. One friend preferred the protests from the civil rights era. I pointed out that at the time, most mainstream white Americans disapproved...

I had no idea the material conditions in Iran had degraded so badly. As the speaker, Prof Fatemeh Shams explains later, these are explosive, borderline revolutionary conditions, much more serious than previous rounds of mass protest

An anti-ICE protest right now in Del Mar, California

What amount of money would make you like this? If the answer is anything less than infinity, that's bad

A political psychology paper in a psychology journal that cites a broad range of political science journals, books, and edited volumes. We love to see it!!

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

The person who was shot in the face here is a local organizer who has been very active in the Movement for Black lives.

New research offers a novel perspective for understanding growing partisan animosity, proposing that this hostility reflects an attitude of blame that partisans direct toward each other. Read more in Personality and Social Psychology Review: https://ow.ly/lX0t50XT8QJ

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

"much work in social psychology is based on sometimes unstated assumptions about what a 'better world' would look like"

This is why I don't think "terrorist" can be reclaimed for any legitimate use on the left. This is a label that renders its object disposable--a justified target for state violence

Excited to start the new year with my paper out in Personality and Social Psychology Review with Mike Gill! We conceptualize partisan animosity as a form of blame, a hostile attitude toward the outparty rooted in perceived immorality. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

saw someone recently who was in their feelings about this, but I think it just gets more obviously true every day. www.everythingishorrible.net/p/our-proble...

Some people were not raised by a military father who explained what ethics are using Hugh Thompson Jr's actions at the My Lai massacre and it shows

A side story is there’s a ton of insider trading on these prediction markets. New accounts making hundreds of thousands on their first and only trade, that maduro would be ousted. Seems like insider trading is legal if not encouraged on these platforms

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Republican Support and Economic Hardship: The Enduring Effects of the Opioid Epidemic,” by Arteaga (@caroartc.bsky.social) and Barone (@vickybarone.bsky.social): doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics. My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6

Incredible social science & data use here. The immediate story is about how the opioid epidemic (pushed by pharma in high cancer areas), resulted in major opioid death & economic hardship which - through various media/political channels - resulted in a sustained rise in support for the Republicans

Good article, but I think we could add that many of the current government officials & influencers spreading political point-scoring falsehoods during crisis events HAVE BECOME gov officials & influencers BECAUSE of their bullshit-spreading talents. System effects of rotten attention dynamics.

Giving what we can has implemented a fun game where you spin a globe to see how your starting point in life would compare if you were reborn today, randomly somewhere on earth. www.givingwhatwecan.org/birth-lottery

New paper out today! The most cost-effective nudges in the US and UK are NOT the most cost-effective in China, Mexico, or India. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @sagepub.com @casbsstanford.bsky.social @chicagoboothreview.bsky.social

harper's letter signatories are all like

Has any reactionary centrist ever apologized for praising Bari Weiss?

Love this short opinion piece on “mechanical bypass” in analogy to “spiritual bypass”.

Thinking this weekend about a recent study on differences in effects between paid/professional punishment versus unpaid. This has relevance to many forms of cooperation, including the governance of online behavior by @raihanalam.bsky.social and @tagerai.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

WATCH: Bystander disarms active shooter at Bondi Beach in Sydney

New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

Super proud of this paper with @apvelilla.bsky.social and @babeheim.bsky.social, now out in Psych Review. Non-paywalled version (preprint) here: osf.io/preprints/so...