One thing I really didn’t appreciate about the research triangle until I moved away is just how exceptional the healthcare is in the area compared to most other places in the country…

Tillis voted not guilty in Trump's impeachment trial for J6, and against the J6 Commission abc11.com/post/senator... www.tillis.senate.gov/2021/5/tilli...

Glad to see the conversation continues to grow and data speak to the enormous class bias that is built into bans on standardized testing, which end up only exacerbating them more. x.com/garrytan/sta...

For a lot made of young men's gender attitudes, nothing apparent in hostile sexism per the 2024 CES. Much more a party story. And these are likely overestimates since the two items are both agree-disagree and phrased in the same direction.

So honored to join the other exceptional social psych scholars in this forthcoming issue of PIBBS! 🧠📊 Our paper examines how insights from social neuroscience can inform better public policy @fabbs.org @spspnews.bsky.social @sansmeeting.bsky.social journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

UNC’s CSEEES was such a bright part of my time at UNC. It not only supported my research, but also felt like home. Such a loss for UNC, its students, and Eastern European and Eurasian studies in the US.

Central attitudes in political belief systems are more resistant to change than peripheral attitudes, but not necessarily less amenable to persuasive attempts: https://osf.io/6a8ue

My brother cleans pools for a number of the Carolina hurricanes. A Scandinavian hockey mom told him America is the “land of opportunity.” True if you’re a once in a generation hockey player. The rest of us might prefer healthcare…

Just finished my last class of the semester🎉Reminded of how much I love teaching this academic writing class for grad students. We focus on improving our writing but also reducing anxiety and becoming a more consistent & productive writer Some of the students favorite writing tips/learnings below:

Didn’t expect Italian Christmas cookies to be served at the conference I’m at but I am absolutely here for it 🇮🇹 🎄

Needed - larger samples, more realism about (the lack of) heterogeneous treatment effects: -"less than a third of proposed hypotheses were supported... the largest predictor of positive exp. results was sample size" -"moderation hypotheses were rarely significant" academic.oup.com/poq/advance-...

Last 10 days to apply~~ #PsychSciSky #socialpsyc #devpsyc #AcademicSky

I'm excited to share that I’ll be reviewing PhD applications this cycle for students interested in working with me starting Summer/Fall 2026. I’m especially looking for applicants excited about research on trust/persuasion, responses to historical harm, addressing inequality, and/or mindsets.

It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning. The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.

New research explores why openness/intellect stands apart from other personality traits. It turns out this trait may be less universal across cultures and rarely targeted for change. Read more in #PSPR: ow.ly/UGlJ50XqLqS

Join us for two fun days of moral psychology and philosophy! #MPRG2025

Come work with us @msupsychology.bsky.social! I promise, we don’t match *all* the time @tedmond.bsky.social

Two great scholars doing work on moral (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) & personality (@tedmond.bsky.social) development & change are recruiting PhD students this year @msupsychology.bsky.social! Your grad office could be across the hall from my office!* *not necessarily a selling point, just a fact

The welfare state is about dignity, equality, and making people not poor, but as @itsafronomics.bsky.social says/cites here, it’s often also an investment that more than pays for itself

New data, data nerds!

At a time when it’s impossible to take research funding for granted, @ncaluori.bsky.social, Cindel White, and I are humbled to receive support from the @templetonfdn.bsky.social to fund 3 years of cross-cultural research aimed at understanding how people decide who counts as their religious ingroup.

Big shoutout to MSU's email spam filter for blocking emails from my external collaborators, but not actual spam from MDPI journals I get at 2am every night...

My paper “Testing Theories of Threat, Individual Difference, and Ideology” is a winner of the Student Publication Award this year. I’m proud of this one, because it shows that if we ask interesting questions and use rigorous methods, we can contribute to ~science~ even when we’re wrong or 1/2 right!

This list of excellent SPSP awards includes @abbycassario.bsky.social’s paper on threat, personality, and ideology, one winner of the student publication award! 🎉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

🚨NEW PREPRINT ALERT! Why is there no coherent labor movement in the U.S., despite widespread outrage at economic inequality? One answer is that structural/systemic factors (such as Right-to-Work legislation) impede collective organizing. #Polipsy #socialpsychology #sociology #polisky

The Moral Psychology Research Group (MPRG) is hosting an on-line conference 11/7-11/8: Any interested attendees are welcome! Speakers include Paul Bloom, Daryl Cameron, Joshua Greene, Melton Yecel, Abigail Cassario, and others (including me). For more details see sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

Check out the Moral Psychology Research Group online conference in November! EMP Lab and @prcpennstate.bsky.social post-doc @amormino.bsky.social will be talking about her work. A lot of great talks scheduled, a treat for folks who enjoy interdisciplinary work sites.google.com/view/mprg/on...

This is an amazing opportunity for those seeking a PhD programme in Exeter: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/pg-res... If you’re interested in a PhD in social psychology on the following topics, feel free to contact me - Activism - Social movements - Resistance - Solidarity - Leadership - Intergroup conflict

Parents of 0- to 12-year-olds, come do science with us! 👉 Sign up to hear about our upcoming studies: redcap.link/MoralMindsLab 👉 To learn more about us: www.moralmindslab.com/participate-...

More than a third of Lucid (now Cint) respondents in 2019 were "professional" respondents according to a new article in @polanalysis.bsky.social , and that's the conservative estimate www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Has anyone ever written an LOR for a medical school app and know what committees tend to look for? I’m writing one for an absolute rockstar of an RA and want to make sure I’m highlighting the right things!

Hi all! Having recently moved to @uh.edu, I’ll be reviewing graduate applications to join the newly minted Worldviews in Motion lab for Fall 2026! Please share with anyone who might be interested 😊 For lab info, check out our (though it’s mostly me atm) website: www.abdoelnakouri.com

Did you hear the news? New interview dropped! Meet @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social in her interview with @msupsychology.bsky.social! Learn about her research interests, how to get involved, and the @psychresearchlist.bsky.social website. psychology.msu.edu/news-events/...

Natalism for me but not for thee. Read my new working paper w/ @tylerreny.bsky.social and Ben Newman: we show some conservative white people support legalizing abortion and contraception access in an effort to minimize the growth of the non-white population.

Increasing the minimum wage decreases poverty and food insufficiency.

Does anyone know of any *panel* data that has a question asking people to compare their *subjective* SES to that of their parents? I’m using some WVS/EVS data with an item like this right now but the repeated cross sectional design is… less than ideal for my specific question

Come join the Moral Minds Lab as a grad student at MSU! Brand-new lab equipped for child & adult testing, with motivated undergrads in a happy department. 🤩 Learn more: www.moralmindslab.com/join-our-tea... (P.S. @tedmond.bsky.social is also taking a student!) @msupsychology.bsky.social

Younger people are more pessimistic about the economy and about open and fair elections. This is bad. www.pbump.net/o/the-doomer...

It's ~so~ much fun when your "small" "side" project ends up having 60 models per study across 4 studies with some machine learning thrown in for fun. 🤷‍♀️

I’ve been in Michigan for three years now and I still can’t tell whether that many Michiganders are awful drivers or if there are cases where it’s legal to take a left on red here

This is a fantastic and much needed contribution. Highly recommend to anyone interested in building strong designs for rigorous empirical work with networks.

A new preprint, lead by lab undergrad Aymin Triki, with machine learning support from @abbycassario.bsky.social osf.io/preprints/ps...

An academic job app wants my employment history going back three employers, which for me means a place I worked in college called "Wicked Weed." They also want my manager's name. My friends, does this sound like the kind of establishment where I'd know my manager's last name? 😅

nice to know osf is a mountain goats fan

Recent research in #PSPR highlights why people's perceptions of inequality matter more than official statistics for predicting political behavior. The study outlines five key psychological processes that shape how we see inequality around us. Learn more: ow.ly/C7Y550WTS5p

This is the same court that just said you can't use race at all in college admissions. It was always about white supremacy.

Excited to announce my paper, Measuring Strategic Positioning in Congressional Elections, is officially accepted and online @thejop.bsky.social here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/... Quick thread on the paper below: