New version of my R package {democracyData} available: github.com/xmarquez/dem...

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

What Americans Think of Words like “Democracy” and “Authoritarianism” In These Times. We recently tested how civic terms landed in today's political climate with a large sample (N=5,393) of Americans. Read more at open.substack.com/pub/moreinco...

I started making this R package 6 years ago. I finally have it in a state I'm happy with, thanks to Claude Code #Rstats github.com/MattCowgill/...

dplyr 1.2.0 was released last week and since I use {dplyr} a lot in my work, I wanted to take some time to try some of the new functions. This post provides some supplemental examples of the new functions, beyond what is provided in the new Posit materials. #rstats cghlewis.com/blog/dplyr_u...

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Are female economists treated differently than males in academic seminars? These authors wanted to know whether gender shapes how scholars are treated when presenting research. So they built a massive dataset of 2,000+ economics seminars, job talks, and conference presentations from 2019–2023...

Trust in others and institutions predicts subjective well-being and vice versa. This makes me even more attuned to the costs of people and systems that undermine trust. The decay of trust as a public health issue. #PsychSciSky #AcademicSky #EduSky doi.org/10.1037/bul0...

I know, I get that there are formatting standards, etc. etc. but there has got to be a better way of communicating results in a world where scientific publishing is primarily digital than what's happening in this paragraph...

🚨 Now out in Psych Science 🚨 We report an adversarial collaboration (with @donandrewmoore.bsky.social) testing whether overconfidence is genuinely a trait The paper was led by Jabin Binnendyk & Sophia Li (who is fantastic and on the job market!) Free copy here: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/7JIYS...

eh, It wasn't that high up... and 4-year-olds can take it. 😜 But if you're looking for other good moments in the paper... I also recommend reading the acknowledgments closely.

love spotting new and fun ways how researchers show group differences. here is one from Walker et al., 2025 showing transparent, overlayed density plots with circled data labels for the mean doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

The psych job market may not be dead... but it is gravely injured 😬 So far it's looking like the Trump administration's attacks on higher ed/research are going to have more than 2x the impact on the job market as the covid-19 pandemic. #psychjobs #neurojobs #academicjobs

Ever stared at a table of regression coefficients & wondered what you're doing with your life? Very excited to share this gentle introduction to another way of making sense of statistical models (w @vincentab.bsky.social) Preprint: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Website: j-rohrer.github.io/marginal-psy...

Paper on effortful leisure led by @aidanvcampbell.bsky.social with @minzlicht.bsky.social and myself now out! (www.nature.com/articles/s44...). Effort is aversive and often avoided, yet here we find effortful tasks and activities are also more meaningful, and effortful leisure is no less enjoyable.

a friend of mine shared this ai-generated "emotion wheel" and unfortunately i have been laughing my ass off at it for like 15 minutes now. today i am feeling Fnliinneon

Majorities of adults in most countries surveyed say that animals can have spirits or spiritual energies, including: - 83% of adults in Hindu-majority India - 81% in Muslim-majority Turkey - 76% in Christian-majority Argentina, and - 70% in Jewish-majority Israel. www.pewresearch.org/...

While everyone gets mad about college students using AI...I am extremely curious about this very vague survey cite in the NY Mag story

Today is #EarthDay a day for Americans to come together to protect and celebrate nature. Despite the divisiveness of contemporary climate debates, Americans agree: protecting nature is important. (1/3)

did young voters support Trump in 2024? this is a notoriously difficult group to poll but the major election surveys indicate that Trump lost among all but young white men. tufts-pol.medium.com/have-young-v...

Climate Terminology Does Not Matter Across tens of thousands of participants in two large-scale experiments, we found that labeling climate change in different ways had no effect on their stated willingness to act. jayvanbavellab.substack.com/p/climate-te... via @dgoldwert.bsky.social

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I was curious to see how academic articles in (Political) Communication and Political Science are being shared on X vs. Bluesky. I find: In 2024, academic articles in our field seem to be clearly more shared on X. But by 2025, Bluesky is catching up fast. Short 🧵 1/n

Elon Musk recently claimed that "empathy is the fundamental weakness of western civilization", pushing us towards "civilizational suicide". I recently wrote a piece in Broadview Magazine explaining why I disagree: broadview.org/elon-musk-em... #empathy #scicomm

Received news that my paper with @minzlicht.bsky.social was accepted at Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin🥳. In it, we examine how trait measures of empathy predict everyday state empathy, and what this teaches us about how we measure and experience empathy: osf.io/preprints/ps... #empathy

Happy to share this new piece on bridging differences in the US, just published in @thefulcrum-us.bsky.social and inspired by the report on #socialconnection recently released by @moreincommonus.bsky.social #bridging #intergroupcontact thefulcrum.us/bridging-com...

Americans want to connect across lines of difference (race/ethnicity, class, religion, politics) but lack the opportunity. New huge research on social connection (2-year study of >6,000 Americans, national, regional, quant + qual). Happy to play a role on this project and celebrate its launch!

@fuhred.bsky.social deserves all the credit for this ShinyApp 👏 see our paper at doi.org/10.1177/2515...

Are you a Southeast Asian social-personality psychologist attending #SPSP2025 in Denver? We are getting together on Thursday 2/20, 7pm local time at Hyatt Regency’s Assembly Hall Bar! RSVP on the Whova app in the meetup section (or just come through)! SEASAPP is back for our 5th year reunion!!

Coming to @spspnews.bsky.social? Interested in LGBTQ+ people, health psychology, or both? Come to our ✨timely✨ symposium on Social Psychological Insights into LGBTQ+ health! See work from me plus @paolopalma.bsky.social, @drmikeytrujillo.bsky.social, and @catherinesjwall.bsky.social!

free QR generator for your conference materials! just used this and it worked great. gchq.github.io/CyberChef/#r... #spsp2025

if you're interested in public opinion research with a focus on social cohesion and fighting polarization using a social, political, and moral psychology lens, please give my organization @moreincommonus.bsky.social a follow!

The global shift to democracy for this week's #TidyTuesday Code: github.com/gkaramanis/t... #RStats #dataviz

Excited to share a new report I helped lead as a research fellow at More in Common on Americans' attitudes towards generative AI! You can check it out here: https://moreincommonus.com/publication/between-hesitation-and-hope (1/8)

Every so often I'm reminded that a few of my tweets were included in a scientific paper and I'm still not exactly sure how I feel about that. trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

pivot_wider() pivot_longer() #stats

anyone know of a crosstab function that uses weights and can output only percentages? #rstats

Pro-Harris advertising is much more effective than anti-Trump advertising. The best ads are normal Democratic issue ads: www.slowboring.com/p/whats-bett...

It is really striking to me how some university leaders have managed to keep their cool and ended the Gaza encampments peacefully through dialogue and others have just needlessly escalated. dailynorthwestern.com/2024/04/29/c...

My wife has family in Gaza, brothers and sisters, nieces and nephews. I don’t need to tell you how bad things are, and they’re the lucky ones. We want to try to help get them out. Please, if you can, donate and/or share this gofundme link; no amount is too small. gofund.me/6356721f

i have a 12 year old Brother printer, an older model than the one in the article, that is still going strong. i still print academic articles 😭

has anyone seen have an example of a figure that is actually a table with figures inside? i want to something like summarytools::dfSummary(), but i've never really seen it in an article. mostly i see either a table or a figure, but not a hybrid.

what are the rules for? cooperation, right? but history and increasing psych evidence tell us that rules can be used to oppress & dominate. @jowylie.bsky.social and i argue for these twin functions of official codified rules and their enforcement osf.io/preprints/ps... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

For context, this isn't me taking his statement out of context. He EXPLICITLY states that social contagion (via social media) explains gender dysphoria in girls: twitter.com/RealSaavedra...

I'm hiring a full-time lab manager to join me at Pitt starting late summer 2024. Come study intergroup relations, stigma, and interventions with me! Please circulate widely and feel free to reach out if you have any questions! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

About 2/3rds of Americans would prefer "people- oriented" jobs, with just one-third preferring "things-oriented" jobs Which is inverse to the availability of such jobs...People's work interests and their availability often do not align osf.io/preprints/ps...