A recent study found that people are more likely to share information that aligns with their beliefs, even if it's not surprising, challenging the idea that novelty and surprise primarily drive sharing behavior. dlvr.it/T67JFq

What’s really fun is when you learn that this is how ALL people develop political opinions, not just college students. Political attitudes are more about in-group identity than reason and core values.

We haven’t “canceled commencement.” We merely decided to rerun the Zoom Commencement of May 2020 as part of our Salute to Pandemic Innovation.

This is a great resource for the academic job market in psychology

This spreadsheet lists all the jobs and postdoc positions along with deadlines, salary, teaching load, insider info: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u…

Periodic reminder that all academics should have a Google Scholar page.

If you have even 1 peer-reviewed paper signing up takes barely a minute, and it’s a great way for people to find out what you do and for you to see the impact of your work.

Go get yours, if you haven’t!

A problem with algorithmic feeds is how much they distort our idea of popular opinion.

We know only people with strong feelings post & that the algorithm hides moderate views. Add to that a system that shows you more of whatever outraged you, and soon you believe it is universal

This restaurant gives a free bottle of wine — but you have to give up your phone during dinner.

'Ninety percent of customers have opted to leave aside their phones in exchange for wine'
nypost.com/2024/04/16/lif…

Because TikTok is controlled by the Chinese Communist Party, they suppress topics that are politically sensitive in China.

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Comm friends, I am delighted to share this article that Markus Appel and I wrote for Advances in Experimental Social Psychology. It's an in-depth review of transportation and narrative persuasion. You can download it for free until June 1: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iw3xErgEWa%…

Exclusive: Psychology researcher loses PhD after allegedly using husband in study and making up data retractionwatch.com/2024/04/26/psy…

If your immediate reaction to bias research is to conclude that everyone else is biased, except for you, then I have news:

Nearly everyone has a Bias Blind Spot: they easily see bias others, but not themselves. cmu.edu/news/stories/a…

When people disagree with us, we just assume others are bad listeners instead of considering that we may simply be incorrect or that others can hold differing views, finds Ren & Schaumberg doi.org/10.1177/095679…

Incredibly disturbing footage out of Texas where authorities appear to be barring any pro-Palestinian protest at all in open outdoor areas of campus — not just disruptive ones. This appears to be a blatant violation not just of the First Amendment but S.B. 18 which requires these…

⚠️For PhDs who are thinking about jumping ship and diving into industry:

Industry isn't necessarily better than academia.

I have straddled both worlds. Here are 5 MYTHS about academia vs. industry:

Speaking to the arrest of student protesters, @NYU psychologist @JayVanBavel says this is a grave tactical error on the part of universities that naturally leads to a backlash and throws accelerant on the anger burning across college campuses.

I recently did a lunch talk with a bunch of undergrads about misinformation. When I asked who saw political content on TikTok, literally every one of them explained they had deleted it b/c it was too addictive. Small communities escaping the trap?