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How do people form beliefs about complex topics? Happy to report our Bayesian model of the psychology of Bayesian updating is out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social! (w/ Gabriel Li & Krosnick) If you gloss over the Greek, it's a new model for how to assess the impacts of information on summary judgments.

Thrilled to share my new article in Political Psychology: “The psychology of political attitudinal volatility.” In it, I attempt to answer why do some people change their political views more than others? Open access at: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... @ispp-pops.bsky.social

Does feeling blue make you feel less Blue? Using surveys across three countries, Bernardi et al.'s article from our October issue finds that depressed mood weakens voters' partisanship and party loyalty. Read the full piece open-access for more doi.org/10.1111/pops...

🇩🇪Check out this recent article, “Reducing Political Dehumanization by Pairing Facts With Personal Experiences,” published in @ispp-pops.bsky.social by Emily Kubin, Kurt J. Gray, and Christian von Sikorski👇 doi.org/10.1111/pops... #polisky

Where do attitudes towards women's rights come from? Morell et al. find varying influences between young men's & women's attitude formation, with men shaped more by family cues. Read the full piece for more findings & what they mean for the growing gender divide in politics: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

What drives the desire to involve the government in healthcare? In our October issue, Alva et al. explore motivations of vulnerability & find the primary source of support for government in healthcare is not self-interest but concern for vulnerable others. Read open-access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Is fact-checking harmful or helpful to political candidates? Prike et al. in our October issue study the effects of fact-checking misleading statements & find that correcting false claims does hamper support for candidates who are not well known. Read their full piece online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Just finished some check-in meetings with the AEs at @ispp-pops.bsky.social; such a wonderful and dedicated bunch to political psychology!

When does "they" go from pronoun to Pronoun? In our October issue, Renström & Klysing study ideological ties to use/views of gender-inclusive language. Read their findings on how Social Dominance Orientation & Right Wing Authoritarianism relate to de-gendered & multi-gendered "they." buff.ly/durLXMS

🧬Check out this recent article, “Extraversion Probably Does Not Cause Political Participation. Evidence from Two Genetically Informed Designs,” published in @ispp-pops.bsky.social by Rafael Ahlskog👇 doi.org/10.1111/pops... #polisky

What do our leaders say after tragedy? Layous et al. study Congressmembers' official statements after George Floyd's death. They find sorrow shared equally by Republicans & Democrats, but trends of system "defending" & system "mending" statements from each, respectively. Read more: buff.ly/J0MVJBD

Does the carceral state discourage or mobilize voters? Krishnamurthy's piece in our October issue on California's Proposition 47 finds that high incarceration rate communities were associated w/ increased voter turnout & higher support for the criminal justice reform measure. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Who motivates future political engagement? Wegemer & Levy's panel study of high school students finds that political interest is mostly self-driven. For most students, motivation largely predicted more political discussions, rather than the other way around. Read online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

How should scholars gather and analyze survey data from authoritarian countries? 🧵 (1/7)

Our latest publication with @markberlin2.bsky.social is out in @ispp-pops.bsky.social. We examine what happens when armed groups deny responsibility for violence and find that denials can erode trust in government and shape how people feel about violence. Read more here: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

What makes some people tolerate organized crime like the mafia? This article from Mirisola et al. in our October issue points to the interplay of national and territorial identity and masculine honor values as leading factors. Read the full article online for more: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

How does culture impact system justification in individuals? This article from Li & Tian exploring political belief finds that views prioritizing relationships & harmony are linked to a stronger tendency to justify the existing social & political system. Read online: buff.ly/yJQjeTY

Do we grow out of susceptibility to conspiracy beliefs? In our October issue, Bordeleau & Stockemer's analysis of existing research finds a negative correlation between age and conspiracy endorsement. Read the findings and what they could mean for future conspiracy research: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

How do we decide if we can trust another group? Wei et al.'s article in our October issue shows that trust is a complex dynamic, not built on one trait alone. They find that warmth towards an outgroup only boosts trust when also seen as competent. Read more online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

🌐Check out this recent article, “Ethos of Conflict in the International Arena: Power Predicts Expression of Threat for Security and Hope for Peace in Speeches of Leaders of Nations in Conflict,” in @ispp-pops.bsky.social by Ushomirsky, Leshem, and Halperin👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

October is here and so is the latest issue of Political Psychology! This issue is jam-packed with 25 original articles. Check it out online here: buff.ly/cxAMGba

October is here and so is the latest issue of Political Psychology! This issue is jam-packed with 25 original articles. Check it out online here: buff.ly/cxAMGba

Politicians often mistake their own beliefs for public opinion. 🏛️🗳️ Recent research in @ispp-pops.bsky.social, summarized on @3streamsblog.bsky.social by @jieun-lee.bsky.social, shows how bias shapes leaders’ perceptions of what voters want. Read here 👉 medium.com/3streams/lea...

👇 call for papers on the political psychology of East Asia!

Benevolent authority beliefs predict public approval in China, but not Japan. At the same time, democratic values were positively associated with public approval in Japan but negatively associated with that in China (in @ispp-pops.bsky.social) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

The last article from our August issue is a review by Eric Baldwin of two books looking at the state of radicalization and what it means for US politics. Read the insightful analysis online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

What drives attitudes towards economic mobility & redistributive policies? Research from Matamoros-Lima et al. in our August issue finds that the perceived difficulty (or ease) in improving socioeconomic status helps to shape support for redistribution. Read open-access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

If you'd like read an analysis of how applicants for Irish passports through descent draw on discourses of 'effortfulness' i.e. the idea that they need to put in the work, well, do I have an 8000 word open access @ispp-pops.bsky.social article for you: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

What does it mean to be European? Mayer et al.'s article in our August issue looks at adolescents' ideas of European identity in Germany. Read open-access online for how these conceptualizations of identity shape intolerance, support of the EU, and more: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

How do social interactions shape ethnic identity? John Doces' article in our August issue examines the effects of social contact on ethnic identity through a field experiment in West Africa and finds a complex dynamic between interethnic relations & identity. Read more: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Working on political psychology research with a focus on East Asia? A new special issue of our journal will center East Asia to broaden the field’s geographic & cultural assumptions. Find the call in the Special Issues section of the link below & consider submitting your work! linktr.ee/POPSjournal

As the fall semester begins, I'd like to send a call to anyone who would like to get involved in our Consortium on Moral Decision-Making. We're a dedicated network of morality and ethics researchers focused on breaking outside siloes to work together on big questions. moralconsortium.psu.edu 1/n

“We used data comprised of 24,009 participants nested within 42 countries. Multilevel models largely supported the competing claims of social dominance and social identity theories over SJT.”

When & why do individuals defend the political systems they live in? Valdes et al. study the tenets of System Justification Theory in a paper from our August issue. Read open-access for their findings on what motivates people to see their system as just, fair, & legitimate. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

What drives the decisions of world leaders? From our August issue, Brent Mills applies Moral Foundations Theory to better understand leaders' motivations & behavior using Vladimir Putin as a case study. Read online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

How do societies move past perceived roles of “victim” and “perpetrator” in the aftermath of conflict? In our August issue, Kazarovytska et al. study this in the context of WWII and explore new ways of understanding collective memory and identity. Read open-access here: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Can tolerance promoted by comprehensive welfare states withstand demographic pressure? In studying racial animosity in Sweden following the refugee crisis, Persson & Widmalm found higher levels of antipathy toward political ideologies than ethnic identities. Read open-access: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Does a candidate's gender change the way voters evaluate them? A Rohrbach & Schönhagen article in our August issue studies the role that voters' heuristics and rationalizations play in candidate evaluation. Read the full open-access piece online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Do ad disclosures on political social media posts change how viewers evaluate a post? Stafford et al.'s study in our August issue suggests disclosures play a strong role in how voters respond to various political messages. Read for more and the implications of their findings: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Is there a link between conservatism & perceived openness/tolerance? In our August issue, Rupar et al. find the level of perceived universalism values in society related to right-wing views & nationalism via the view of universalism as threat to trad. ways of life. Read now: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

🇮🇳Check out this recent article, “Do Populist Leaders Mimic the Language of Ordinary Citizens? Evidence From India,” published in @ispp-pops.bsky.social by Jean-Thomas Martelli and Christophe Jaffrelot 👇 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #polisky

salt air... new issue to explore i've never needed anything more the august issue of political psychology is out now featuring ten original articles and a book review. check out the table of contents for more: buff.ly/fwpNtEo

The last of our book reviews in our June issue is a piece by Kay Lehman Schlozman. In the article, Schlozman reviews Muirhead & Rosenblum's Ungoverning: The Attack on the Administrative State and the Politics of Chaos. Read the full piece online: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

The second book review from our June issue covers Orla T. Muldoon's The Social Psychology of Trauma. University of Lausanne scholars Eva G.T. Green & Christian Staerklé take a look at how Muldoon's book reframes trauma as a fundamentally social and political process. doi.org/10.1111/pops...

In a survey experiment, we asked a sample of Portuguese voters to imagine that a politician was being investigated for a corruption case—money in exchange for favoritism in a public tender. (1)

We have three book reviews to round out our June issue article spotlight. Up first is Carrie Menkel-Meadow's review of Hope Amidst Conflict by Oded Adomi Leshem. Read for the perspective of the award-winning scholar of alternative dispute resolution on Leshem's book doi.org/10.1111/pops...

Does gender bias shape what voters learn about candidates? Libby Jenke's eye-tracking study in our June issue found attention doesn't differ by candidate gender. Read online for more on what this means for gender bias in candidate judgment and information acquisition: doi.org/10.1111/pops...

📣Fresh out the slammer - our Registered Report on the so-called LWA - "A specter is haunting political psychology—a specter of left-wing authoritarianism" with @milicaninkovic.bsky.social out now in Political Psychology! @ispp-pops.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1111/pops...

That feeling you get when one of your students’ work shows up in your feed does not get old.