🚨📄 Now accepted at Journal of Experimental Social Psychology! Why do some people turn to extreme views after being excluded? Most studies focus on personal rejection, but what happens when it’s your group that’s rejected? We conducted a study with over 1,200 UK residents.👇

🚨 New Preprint:    Social media influence campaigns often use AI to spread polarizing messages at scale. But can LLMs such as ChatGTP fuel extremist attitudes?   We tested this in two studies with US Democrats and Republicans (N= 917). 🧵👇

🚨OUT NOW: Why does it hurt when your group is rejected—even if the rejection isn’t about you?   We developed an openly available task RateME to explore how the brain processes group rejection and how it compares to personal rejection. Here’s what we found. 🧵👇