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…”

In a world of CBSes, be a WSJ

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):

Fascinating and important work from Jonah Koetke and Karina Schumann (two of my fave collaborators!) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Juste came across this interesting paper: repetition does not just cause "illusory truth" but also "illusory implications" -- people make inferences on the basis of familiar (illusory) information. @lkfazio.bsky.social @profsanderlinden.bsky.social @ulliecker.bsky.social doi.org/10.1098/rsos...

New work with Danny Osborne, Chris Sibley, and @fasbrock.bsky.social 💫 We explore how the relationship between two key constructs in intergroup relations—(anti-)egalitarianism and system justification—has changed with rising gender equality over 14 years. Now accepted at #PSPB 🎉

A new report from the National Academies offers a thorough examination of what we know and don’t know about misinformation about science. Read more here: nap.nationalacademies.org/27894

🚨 To all scientists and science communicators: The public trusts science more when we acknowledge the limits of our knowledge! A habit to parctice in 2025. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Thank you @shaunambowes.bsky.social et al! #science

It was a lot of fun editing this important special issue! I highly recommend you give it a read!

I really love mentoring students, and when they share reflections like this it feels even more rewarding! "In research, the goal is to learn; you are not expected to or supposed to know everything."

Women are under-represented at senior levels in #academia globally, & across all #science 🧪 disciplines, as shown by these "scissor-shaped curves" ✂️ So how can we ever achieve #gender #equality? We discuss various strategies in this #Cell Commentary #WomeninSTEM www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... 🧵 1/

Exposure to counter-stereotypical exemplars of the out-party can improve affect towards the out-party link.springer.com/article/10.1... #socpsych #psychscisky #polpsy

"Debunking Three Myths About Misinformation" -- a new review paper from Bertram Gawronski et al. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... After the debunking, the authors offer three empirical conclusions: (1) people are quite good at discerning true from false information

Having a blast at my first Psychonomics! Talking about conspiracy belief and conspiracy theorists. Also, I took the Long Island Railroad and hailed a cab, so I am a New Yorker now?? @lkfazio.bsky.social thanks for supporting my journey in all the ways

How can we motivate action to address climate change? We tested 17 psych interventions at once in a tournament! @falklab.bsky.social If you’re attending #psynom24, come to my talk from 11:40-12 TOMORROW (11/22) to find out the winning strategies! Marquis B-C! @psychonomicsociety.bsky.social

Finally our editorial for the "What makes a good theory?" special issue is out (co-edited with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social, @jcskewes.bsky.social, Sashank Varma, and Todd Wareham). It's an interdisciplinary issue and the contents are transdisciplinary. #philsci #metasci #cogsci #ai #psych 🧪

Looking forward to my first SESP conference! Will be talking about new data on conspiracy belief and antisemitism across levels of conspiracy belief commitment in the Toward a Social-Psychological Understanding of Antisemitism in the US session. Say hi if you'll be at SESP too👋

My lab will be there! SARMAC is always one of my favorite conferences

Very excited to announce the launch of Cooperation Island, a new research platform for measuring social decision-making in children ages 5+. Shout out to co-pilots Julia Marshall and Shalini Gautam! Check it out at: cooperationisland.com

We discovered the lab stuffed animals today and, yes, I took them all

Delighted to serve on this panel for the UCO Media Ethics Conference today and that an audience member made this incredible sketch of us!