Delighted to see this paper—for which I collected data in the US—on the relation between intergroup conflict & preferences for dominant leaders across 25 countries is now out in EHB. Great job to Lasse Laustsen & colleagues for getting this cool paper out there! authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

This past Saturday, I was asked to facilitate a session on revisiting stereotypes (versus preferences) at my university’s “WE LEAD” program, a cohort experience for alumnae of Elon University who are now successful executives. (1/2)

Looking forward to hosting this interactive session @ my university tomorrow. It'll focus on distinguishing between 2 kinds of political polarization, when and why we should care about (affective) polarization, & the science behind some of the causes of--and interventions for reducing--polarization.

Putting the finishing touches on the BORG lab’s new research space, while campus looks about as eager as I do to welcome back three returning student researchers—and one new one—this semester. awiezel.wixsite.com/wiezelborgla...

Friendly reminder from your resident political psychologist that contemporary election polling results tend to have larger error margins than the actual margins between candidates; they're not necessarily great indicators of who's going to win, especially in a close race. (1/3)

Doug Kenrick and I recently wrote a Psychology Today blog post about leader sex in the context of the current U.S. presidential race, given some of our recent work with @mbarlev.bsky.social on leadership stereotypes and preferences. You can check it out here: www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/se...

First Behavior, Opinions, and Relations between Groups (BORG) lab meeting down, and we're already getting featured our on our department's Instagram. Very excited to be working with these three great undergrad students!☺️ www.instagram.com/p/C_TOZB3ugx0/

Excited to announce that I'll be launching my undergraduate research lab--the (Wiezel) Behavior, Opinions, and Relations between Groups (BORG) Lab-- at Elon University this Fall! (1/2)

It was very cool to see Patrick Grzanka give the presidential keynote at #SPSSICon2024 yesterday. I still remember some 14 years ago, when I was a wide-eyed political science undergrad taking his human event course. (1/4)

Terrific Kurt Lewin Keynote Address by Linda Tropp, using examples from decades of work on intergroup relations to illustrate "Socially Relevant Research" as an alternative to a tight dichotomy between "scientific/basic" research and "useful"/"applied" research (1/4)

Do differences in climate beliefs between liberals & conservatives translate into differences in climate action? Interesting work by @mikeberkwein.bsky.social and his team, who looked at a global mega-study investigating the effectiveness of 11 climate interventions, found that (1/6)

Are sustainable behaviors better adopted socially or alone? Janet Lopez & her team first had participants describe behavior change goals, and then write a letter regulating their goals to either themselves (individual regulation) or to another person (social regulation). (1/2)

Is starting sustainable behaviors seen as more impactful than stopping *un*sustainable ones? @rrrianabrown.bsky.social finds that when participants evaluate a person that either starts or stops using products which are described as either sustainable or unsustainable, (1/4)

Much of the work on cross-race relationships and interactions focus on the benefits for members of dominant groups. Régine Debrosse & colleagues' work considers the impact on people of color. (1/4)

Very interesting mega-study on stereotype variability (among US participants) by Selin Toprakkiran. Using data from Project Implicit, and targets from 28 nationality groups and 6 racial/ethnic groups to delve into the nature of stereotype variability, her team found that … (1/4)

Bookmarking a number of symposia to sit in on at #SPSSICon24. Please feel free to reach out if you'd like to meet up and join me! ☺️

Thanks to Michael Abernethy for highlighting our recent work (with Douglas T. Kenrick and @mbarlev.bsky.social) on leadership stereotypes versus preferences in Today at Elon! www.elon.edu/u/news/2024/...

Do people really prefer dominant male leaders? A series of studies led by @awiezel.bsky.social & Doug Kenrick suggest people in fact would rather have prestige-based and female leaders in a variety of leadership roles, including political office. www.hbes.com/is-it-time-t...

Thanks to Eric Dolan and @psypost.bsky.social for this neat write-up of our recent work on leadership stereotypes versus preferences with Douglas T. Kenrick and @mbarlev.bsky.social!

We’re delighted that our paper, “Stereotypes versus preferences: Revisiting the role of alpha males in leadership” (doi.org/10.1016/j.ev...) with @mbarlev.bsky.social and Douglas T. Kenrick received seven thoughtful commentaries from prominent scholars in the field (1/3)

Very much looking forward to co-hosting the interactive online session, "The Social Psychology of Bridging Political Divides in Your Own Backyard" with Braver Angels of North Carolina, next Thursday, 4/11 at 7:30 PM EST. (1/3)

I'm very much looking forward to putting on this interactive lunch session on political polarization on Saturday, 3/23, sponsored by @NCState Student Leadership and Engagement. If you're a student at NC State, or at another NC university near Raleigh, please feel free to RSVP!

Very excited to report that our paper "Stereotypes versus preferences: Revisiting the role of alpha males in leadership" is now available online at Evolution & Human Behavior : authors.elsevier.com/a/1iX2x3tz49..., with some broad takeaways below (1/4).

Neat talk at #SPSP2024 by Luiza Santos looking at the perceptions versus reality of the outcomes of cross-party conversations. Participants persistently underestimated how positive the outcomes of 20-minute cross-party conversations would be. (1/4)

Interesting talk at #SPSP2024 by Erik Santoro on the prejudice-reducing effects of face-to-face cross-partisan conversations, focusing on three questions: (Related paper available here: science.org/doi/10.1126/...) (1/4)

Neat prejudice reduction intervention resource database from @betsylevyp.bsky.social and colleagues plugged at #SPSP2024. prejudicereduction.princeton.edu (1/3)

A potentially neat new resource for collecting cross-national data in contexts outside the West is tabling this year at #SPSP2024. Besample collects participant samples in 42 countries across Asia, Africa, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe. (1/2)

Neat talk by @grigolus.bsky.social at #SPSP2024 presenting the Differential Information Processing (DIP) Model of intergroup attitudes. Using cross-national data and factorial survey experiments, results suggest support for an elegant two-domain model of intergroup bias: (1/2)

Do liberals and conservatives have different everyday experiences? In a cool talk & preprint (osf.io/preprints/os...) by Sanaz Talaifar et al. at the political psych. precon., analyses of an impressive array of cellphone censor data and ecological momentary assessments from undergrad students (1/4)

Great showing at the #SPSP2024 awards ceremony by my alma mater’s social psychology area. Congratulations to friends and mentors alike, Cari Pick, Dave Lundberg-Kenrick, and Doug T. Kenrick!

Very cool seeing my former student and research assistant, Sydney Tran, present her first poster as a grad student at #SPSP2024! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Cool poster by Zi Ting You and @page-gould.bsky.social finding that in the Canadian context, people consider their political ingroup as those who are within about 2 units more liberal or 2 units more conservative on a 1-7 point self-report scale. #SPSP2024

Great talk by @ashwinia.bsky.social showing that online, people self-censor beliefs that they see as incongruent with their (political) social networks. Interestingly, after people self-censored these incongruent beliefs, they also tended to view them as less important (1/2)

Great data blitz by Noah Lansky on the relationship between ideology and happiness. Using longitudinal and cross-national data that disentangles ideology (right vs. left) from political extremity (extreme vs. moderate), and distinguishes multiple measures of happiness, (1/2)

Felicia Pratto makes an interesting case for considering political context in perceptions of political justice. For example, higher perceptions of security are associated with greater perceived fairness in authoritarian systems, but not Democratic ones. #SPSP2024

I’ll be postering this year at #SPSP2024 in San Diego. If you’re around, please come say hi. I’ll be in the Sails Pavilion poster area on Fri 2/9 from 12:30-1:30 to chat about some of my dissertation work on intergroup contact across the political divide.

Thanks to NC Campus Engagement for inviting me to give the opening talk on political polarization at CSNAP the other week. It was great to see so many students from across North Carolina engage with such a cool conference designed to depolarize communities!