Very excited to share that I'll be joining Social and Decision Sciences @cmu.edu as an assistant professor in the Fall! So grateful to everyone who has supported me, particularly my amazing advisors @dgrand.bsky.social & Rahul Bhui, family, & friends!

Thank you to our wonderful Doctoral Research Forum presenters #VictoriaZhang, #ChuckDowning, @ocolluphid.bsky.social, #ChristinaNguyen, @rorchinik.bsky.social. And congratulations to our thesis prize winners: Reed (1st place) and Christina (2nd place). Christina also won the viewers' choice award.

Normalizing lies...👇 Repeated exposure effect on moral condemnation of fake news www.nature.com/articles/s41... @dgrand.bsky.social "...frequently seen headlines receive lower moral condemnation" "Without this condemnation, the publication & spreading of online misinformation may be more common."

🚨New WP🚨 Using GPT4 to persuade participants significantly reduces climate skepticism and inaction -Sig more effective than consensus messaging -Works for Republicans -Evidence of persistence @ 1mo -Scalable! PDF: osf.io/preprints/ps... Try the bot: www.debunkbot.com/climate-change Here’s how 👇

Do you have strong programming skills but need research experience doing meaningful & exciting CSS projects before head off to a top graduate school for a computational social science PhD? Apply now to predoc www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear... with me, @dggoldst.bsky.social & @jakehofman.bsky.social

New Bright Line Watch report brightlinewatch.org/accelerated-... -Expert ratings of US democracy at post-2016 low -55% of Trump-aligned Rs approve of "strong leader who does not have to bother w/Congress" -Jan 6 pardons, exec branch firings, Musk influence rated as grave threats 🧵 of results below

A new working paper with Daniel Banki, @urisohn.bsky.social and Robert Walatka, just submitted to SSRN. The paper is comment on Ryan Oprea's recent AER paper. The paper is processing, but you, my friends, get early entry. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

CamererFest got off to a great start with a thrilling poster session from generations of @cfcamerer.bsky.social academic descendants #cfcfc 1/10

@rorchinik.bsky.social fit three fascinating papers on adaptation to environments with varying levels of misinformation on one poster. If the QR codes don't work, go to his website: www.reedorchinik.com/research @rbhui.bsky.social @dgrand.bsky.social @cameronmartel.bsky.social #cfcfc 4/10

New WP! The illusory truth effect (repetition -> belief) is core to psych of beliefs, & thought to be a deep bias impacting misinfo, persuasion & advertising Why would cognition include such a flaw? We argue it is a rational adaptation to high-quality info environments 🧵1/

Very excited about this paper! And make sure to check out my talk tomorrow if you’re at SJDM

Check out our new working paper! While Elon Musk’s embrace of the right has had horrible effects, it puts him in a place to be a credible messenger to Reps about the importance of climate change. Showing Rs his pro-climate tweets causes meaningful changes in pro-climate beliefs & intended actions.

Very happy to share a new working paper with some great coauthors! 97% of climate scientists agree that human-caused climate change is occurring. But how do people interpret this consensus? Is it a testament to expertise or a signal of bias? psyarxiv.com/ezua5/