Super excited to see our work on interpersonal vs. metacognitive intellectual humility published in PSPB! See Michael’s thread 🧵 here!

Another @lkfazio.bsky.social outfit this weekend! Presley loves her overalls! ☀️

Really great to talk about the illusory truth effect (and our paper on how repetition affects belief in conspiracy statements @lkfazio.bsky.social) with Markham Heid at TIME Magazine! time.com/article/2026...

Come join the 2027 SPSP Misinformation & Belief Science Preconference Committee! You would serve for 3 years: 1 as Future Co-Chair, 1 as Co-Chair (Cameron Kay and Sze Yuh Nina Wang), and 1 as Past Co-Chair (me & @jgranadossamayoa.bsky.social). If you are interested, apply by 05/01/2026! Link below!

Looking forward to reviewing submissions for the SESSR, which focuses on understanding religion, spirituality, and related concepts! You can field a FREE survey experiment on a probability sample of US adults through NORC! Submit by June 1st! www.sessr.org

Thrilled to serve as a Guest Editor for the Political Ideology and Religion collection for Scientific Reports! This Collection welcomes research examining the psychological determinants of political ideology and religion. Please submit by 12/17/26 and reshare! www.nature.com/collections/...

Out in the Identity & Politicization in Behavior Therapy issue of Current Opinion in Psychology! We review key political criticisms of CBT from the political left and right. We conclude with strategies for acknowledging these critiques while not undermining the efficacy of CBT. Paper & figure below!

Not only is @lkfazio.bsky.social a great researcher and mentor but also add seamstress to her resume! My Presley girl looks too cute in this Lisa Fazio dress 👗💕

Double feature announcement! Missed SPSP this year because my daughter, Presley, arrived at 5:55pm on 02/24! Also, thrilled to announce that I’ll be starting as an Assistant Professor at Furman University starting in August! Exciting times for our family 🎉❤️

I’ll be teaching Social Psych and Personality Psych for UGs (small classes) in the Fall! Tips, tricks, assignments, exercises, syllabi, etc. are invited and welcomed!!

Social conflict fosters cognitive distortions which, like those in clinical settings, lead to cycles of counterproductive behavior that feed into distorted thinking. A new paper uses insights from CBT to fix cognitive distortions that fuel intergroup conflict: www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

What might contribute to "remarkable hospitality"? We used a mixed-methods approach in a sample of individuals who housed refugees from Ukraine to clarify their characteristics and the predictors of remarkable hospitality. Paper out now in JOPP! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Academic “Merry Christmas” emails (timestamp 4:59pm 12/25) 😂🎄

Not only did I get to publish my first developmental study this year, but also it was recently featured in GGSC's "Top 10 Insights from the 'Science of a Meaningful Life' in 2025" feature! Links to the feature and manuscript are below!

Want to know more about intellectual humility and trust? I have good news for you! We wrote a brief (but thorough) review on IH and trust in Current Opinion in Psychology! 10/10 experience publishing with some of my fave colleagues @michalehmann.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

My first registered replication report, study on the illusory truth effect, and study published in PB&R with @lkfazio.bsky.social ‼️Preprint here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Previous research found that the illusory truth effect was smaller for conspiracy statements than for trivia statements...

When you run a misinformation lab and still want to be festive

📢The 2026 edition of the SPSP Misinformation & Belief Science preconference will be held virtually on Tuesday, February 24.🎉 Submit an abstract for either a single presenter or data blitz presentation by October 23 (link below) and don’t forget to register to attend by February 13!

After years of teamwork, I am thrilled that our adversarial collaboration on political ideology and belief rigidity was accepted for publication at Political Psychology! Plus, it's my first Pol Psych pub, so it is doubly exciting! t.co/2TgscFm1J8

Thanks to PsyPost for covering our recent work on the relations between intellectual humility and religious and political polarization! www.psypost.org/intellectual...

It was great to sit down with Jill Suttie at the @greatergoodmag.bsky.social and talk about our research on young children's preferences for intellectual humility over intellectual arrogance! Read here: greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...

Saddened by so many things that are happening in the country. “For young researchers, “there is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” says Emilya Ventriglia, a neuroscience Ph.D. student at Brown University…”

Stoked that my paper with Cheryl Kaiser is now out in SPPS!!

@lkfazio.bsky.social and I had a great time meeting and collaborating with colleagues at Waikato and Auckland! We also managed to get several adventures in! Find yourself a colleague who both pushes you in your research and also to step outside of your comfort zone (aka caving and zip lining ‼️)

Yesterday I got to complete my 80s kid dream of seeing real glowworms rather than just cuddling with the toy version. (Also, New Zealand is beautiful, @shaunambowes.bsky.social and I are having a great time with @drlambchop.bsky.social, Eryn Newman, Danny Osborne, @mehr.nz and all the kiwis)

Good reporting on this aspect of the attacks on science — how the Trump administration is cutting research on mis and disinformation. Shout out to @lkfazio.bsky.social for taking a public stand (and being the lead photo). 1/2 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/15/b...

Divine forgiveness (DF)—the belief that one has been forgiven by God—is a deeply meaningful part of many people’s lives and can positively impact their well-being, including the ability to self-forgive after wrongdoing.

📣🧪 $25k grants for those who: 1. are working on research on STEM and education (including AI and CS, graduate education and MSIs, and scholarship that aims to reduce inequality), and 2. have had a recently terminated or cancelled grant from NSF. Early-career scholars prioritized

Excited to explore whether there is "too much" intellectual humility in the context of conspiracy belief with one of my favorite colleagues (turned research adversary🙃)! Thanks to UPenn's Adversarial Collaboration Project for the opportunity.

I got an email yesterday afternoon that my NSF SPRF Postdoctoral Fellowship was terminated. My grant focused on testing interventions to address online misinformation and I was 8 months into a two year appointment.

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Can confirm that my NSF grant "How False Beliefs Form & How to Correct Them" was cancelled today because it is "not in alignment with current NSF priorities" Shocking that understanding how people are misled by false information is now a forbidden topic. Our work will continue but at a smaller scale

Here's a copy of an NSF grant termination notice that went out today. "NSF is issuing this termination to protect the interests of the government pursuant...on the basis that they no longer effectuate the program goals or agency priorities." Not subject to appeal. #HigherEd #AcademicSky

🧪 DOGE is reporting cancelling 402 NSF grants today. And let's recap: this is for awards that NSF has **ALREADY** judged as aligned with its mission in law, which includes broadening participation in STEM. It bears repeating: the law supersedes exec orders. For more: www.aaup.org/sites/defaul...

Thanks to @lkfazio.bsky.social for treating the lab to the Chicago architecture tour!!

So proud of our stellar undergraduate RAs for presenting our new research at MidwesternPsych! My talk (with @senteio.bsky.social and @lkfazio.bsky.social) on predictors of health-related conspiracy belief across racial identities will be at 9:15am this Saturday!

First (but certainly not last) developmental paper now accepted at Developmental Psychology! We asked: Do children value intellectual humility over intellectual arrogance? The answer is YES! Preprint available here! osf.io/preprints/os...

I will be teaching two courses in the fall, both for upper-level undergraduates! One will be on Theories of Counseling and one will be a small seminar on the Psychology of Misinformation. If anyone has taught these classes, I would love ideas, input, and tips!!

This is the White House website. Unbelievable.

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Waited until I passed the EPPP (as of yesterday)… Thrilled to announce that I accepted a tenure-track offer in the Psychology Department of The University of Alabama in Huntsville!! I am so excited to build my lab (stay tuned!) and join the welcoming department.

Thank you @lkfazio.bsky.social for covering this and a huge thanks to @shaunambowes.bsky.social for inviting me to be a part of such an amazing symposium this year! #SPSP2025

Not only did she send the kind message but she showed up to the 8am talk y’all!!

Conflict preconference this morning. It's cool research on the connection between conspiracy belief and prejudice (but you'll also get to hear @shaunambowes.bsky.social talk this afternoon on who conspiracy theorists are and Sat on predictors of conspiracy belief).

Not going to let Nashville snow get in the way of chairing my first SPSP symposium on conspiracy belief this Saturday! Come see our talks on conspiracy belief strength, conspiracy theorists, and more!

JD Vance has expressed a “deep hostility to the entire academic enterprise, not just the so-called woke parts,” writes @michellegoldberg.bsky.social. "He wasn’t talking about making more room for right-wing ideas in universities or even dreaming of taking them over. He wanted to destroy it all."

We are not far away from your spouse’s cancer trial stopping, your parent’s Alzheimer’s clinical trial evaporating, your teen’s mental health intervention disappearing. It’s easy to attack universities, but the recent actions from the White House will stop cutting edge medical research very quickly.

Page One in Boston: @bostonglobe.com

Does the culture you grow up in shape the way you see the world? In a new Psych Review paper, @chazfirestone.bsky.social & I tackle this centuries-old question using the Müller-Lyer illusion as a case study. Come think through one of history's mysteries with us🧵(1/13):