Love this. Why do people identify strongly with stigmatized social groups/categories? Identification is more about making sense of the self (meaning) than it is about feeling "good" about the self (esteem)

RIP D'Angelo. Will be spinning this today in memory of one of the all time greats. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RLP...

Apropos of nothing, family control studies of more than 2 million Swedish children find no effect of prenatal acetaminophen exposure on subsequent autism diagnosis. Authors conclude prior observational findings likely due to confounding. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The pretty draft is now online. Link to paper (free): www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.... Our replication package starts from the raw data and we put real work into making it readable & setting it up so people could poke at it, so please do explore it: dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtm...

This simply cannot be said enough. Americans overwhelmingly reject political violence. The impact of these events - no matter the target - is terrible, but the shooter is not *representative* of anyone.

Moved to Arkansas so I figured I’d better get a hard copy of this banger.

Coming soon to an open access APSR near you: (all kidding aside, I'm so happy to see this piece out in the world)

🚨Recent paper with @jaclarner.bsky.social on how people (fail to) respond to the vulnerability of marginalized groups during public health crises, now open access at JEPS.

For the first time all devolved national elections in the UK will use different electoral systems Cool site below by @eoghanly.bsky.social allows you to see how they all work turning votes into seats 👇

If you make open science a precondition for publication you get open science. Love to see it.

This paper is an absolute masterclass in measurement. Love seeing this kind of work in the APSR.

I was sent a paper to review that cites a book I did not write. As in, it cites a made up book with my name on it. Quick look in the references, and I quickly found several more non-existent papers. People. People. This is supposed to be science. What are we doing? This made my soul feel tired.

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clear evidence in the CES that ideology is beginning to overcome Dem party loyalty among black and hispanic voters: 2016 to 2024 swing in Dem support: conservative black voters: 80% -> 51% moderate hispanic voters: 79% -> 60% conservative hispanic voters: 30% -> 9%

www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ2Z... What a fool believes might be the funkiest song ever written by a white guy.

Absolutely delighted to announce that I will be joining @uarkansas.bsky.social as Assistant Professor of Public Opinion in Fall 2025. Feeling very grateful for this opportunity and excited to begin work with colleagues in political science and the Blair Center in beautiful Fayetteville!

Great paper. Seems strange to me that we do not seem to see much use of GP measures in political science given that the measures are readily available in the ANES, or any other study with relevant feeling thermometers.

Glad to hop on this bandwagon. How often in 2024 did I actually improve an empty page?

🚨 NEW PUBLICATION 🚨 "Does disability affect support for political parties?" Just published in Electoral Studies, co-authored with Melanie Jones. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧵 👇

The social sciences as we know them largely emerged out of the attempt to understand how populations supported fascism in the 1930s. But although we are much better at observing the same forces this time, we never had nor built the infrastructure to really change the underlying factors.

Delighted to learn that my paper with @jaclarner.bsky.social is out today at JEPS! Throughout the COVID19 pandemic, governments sought to increase compliance by emphasizing the vulnerability of minority groups to severe illness/death...1/n🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

In preparing for the job market I recently wrote a draft syllabus for a proposed course on the Politics of Disability. Sharing it here in case its of interest to others - would love to hear any feedback/suggestions and hope it helps! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/srq5e...

Love this. Reading death penalty abolitionists was my #1 gateway drug into the broader study of politics. I took a course at Cornell law school taught by the great capital defense lawyer, John Blume, who radicalized me. Beccaria is still my fav: oll.libertyfund.org/titles/volta...

No one can make a guitar weep and wail like Derek Trucks. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVW...

I'm on the job market this Fall! I work on public opinion and political psychology in the United States. I study how political processes - policy feedback, exposure to protest action, and experiences of discrimination - shape political cohesion in social minority groups. joshuathorp.github.io

New paper (🎉) on disability and welfare attitudes with @joshuathorp.bsky.social now online at Political Psychology. We use survey experiments to better understand support for government assistance for disabled people, and uncover evidence of substantial conditionality. 🔗 below! polisky polipsy

Delighted to learn that my paper with @jaclarner.bsky.social on disability and welfare attitudes in the UK is forthcoming at Political Psychology! This is my first publication and I'm thrilled its found such a great home. Preprint: osf.io/mtb4n/ polisky behaviorsky

This is awesome.

I’ll be thrilled if Taylor saves American democracy but my swiftie fiancé will never let me hear the end of it.

Polisky folks who work on parasocial contact. What counts as contact? Does reading about an individual who is framed as an exemplar of a group count as parasocial contact? What if it's a fictitious individual? Control over the manipulation seems dubious here. behaviorsky

Super excited to talk about the political psychology of disability at JAWS today! 3pm EST. Register below! Polisky behaviorsky

Hi Polisky friends - I'm on the job market! I am a PhD candidate in American politics at the University of Michigan, working on political psych/behavior in minority groups. My dissertation focuses on disability as a dimension of political identity and cohesion. joshthorp.com PSJMinfo behavioursky

Doing empirical research on disability + politics? Moritz Raykowski and I are putting together a panel for APSA Virtual on 8-9 Feb 24 connect.apsanet.org/virtual-rese.... If you'd like to be part of it send your title + abstract to [email protected] by Oct 12th. polisky behavioursky

I’m looking to put together at least one panel on disability research for @MPSAnet . If you are interested, please contact me before 10/4! Polisky

Introducing the Political Psychology Feed for people doing work in that area. Tags (for now) are polipsy, polipsysky, polpsy, and polpsysky. Let me know if you want to be added. Also thanks to @profmusgrave.bsky.social for the very guide. Polisky Link to the feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...