"Science must be independent of politics to have any value to politics. That means that if the scientific facts are different than what we wanted, we have to live with that." #spsp
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"Have a bi-partisan committee of #SPSP members audit its website, journals and conference for demonization rhetoric, progressive value statements & progressive policies unsjustified by the weight of the evidence."
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"The quality of the responses varied wildly. Only one of them (and that was one more than I would have predicted) gave a truly satisfying, unbiased, intellectually-compelling answer."
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🔪"If you run from a vigorous scientific debate on Twitter to your little blue sky echo chamber, I have words for you... You're not just losing conservatives, you're losing liberals"
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👏 a successful #SPSP!
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Do you want to learn more about children who chose to go vegetarian in meat-eating families and how they compare to family & non-vegetarians? 🌱 Come check out my poster at #SPSP at 4:40PM today! I'm in booth 265, come say hi! 😊 #SPSP2026
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@killianmcloughlin.bsky.social social media news especially likely to use villian / victim framing; low quality news especially; more likely to evoke outrage and draw engagement when doing so #spsp
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A day 2 presentation at #SPSP by @jules-oberschulte.bsky.social suggested that both in pilot studies covering fictitious political scenarios an in the 2024 US elections, participants were less likely to share in-party criticism.
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In an interesting Day 2 talk at #SPSP, Michalis Mamakos showed data suggesting that across 250 million comments from over 10,000 subreddits, of those covering political topics, about 13% could be coded as “closed-minded”, but only 3% covering non-political topics could be coded as “closed-minded.”
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Day 2 of #SPSP also featured an interesting talk by Jordan Thompson, finding that participants with high levels of outparty animosity were more engaged with online political memes than those with lower levels of outparty animosity, including in terms of the intent to like and share those memes.
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Gotta say I see such progress in Q&As at #SPSP. No comments disguised as questions. & every question prefaced with a kind, positive remark. I so value this progress!
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During Day 2 of #SPSP, @crobertson500.bsky.social presented interesting work suggesting that although people overwhelmingly think (blue dots) that negative content (seen in red rows) goes viral online, they actually *want* (orange dots) positive content (seen in green rows) to go viral online.
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Samuel Arnold presented interesting data at the #SPSP polipsy precon showing that U.S. Prolific participants overestimate past prejudice against Black Americans relative to actual levels of historical prejudice per ANES data; discrepancies increased as participants estimated further back in time.
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Another impressive data blitz at the #SPSP political psychology preconference came from @hwaldfogel.bsky.social who investigated how Democrats and Republicans define what “we” means in campaign messaging.
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An interesting data blitz by Noah Laskey at the #SPSP political psychology preconference investigated the role of context in the moral foundations, questioning some of the classic work highlighting the differences in moral judgments between liberals and conservatives…
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Another interesting #SPSP political psychology preconference data blitz by @trevorslies.bsky.social investigated the association between conservatism and different types of environmentalism—complicating prior work suggesting conservatism might be uniformly related to anti-environmental sentiment.
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Another cool data blitz from #SPSP political psych precon. People asume there are two large coalitions in the U.S.: liberals & conservatives. But, work by @isaiasghezae.bsky.social suggests there are instead 3: (1) conservatives,
(2) ideological liberals, and (3) a liberal demographic group.
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New work from @drsanaz.bsky.social : using smart phone sensing data, one of the biggest predictors of people higher on authoritarian measure was Facebook and social media use #spsp
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Second, during the #SPSP political psychology data blitzes, Sanaz Talaifar presented some fascinating analyses of smartphone data among German users to investigate the everyday behaviors of people with greater authoritarian tendencies. These behaviors were better than chance at predicting high…
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Some particularly impressive data blitzes @ the #SPSP political psych precon. First, Opeyemi Adeojo presented a look at how different facets of tendency toward interpersonal victimhood are associated with support for violence in an active conflict between indigenous groups & the Fulani in Nigeria.
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Some interesting talks this morning at the #SPSP political psychology preconference! First up, Beth Anne Helgasom discussed work across five studies (1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, and 3) that found that partisans are more lenient in judging the falsehoods said by politicians they support versus oppose, because
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We're excited about the upcoming Computational Psychology preconference at @spspnews.bsky.social this Thursday. See our action-packed full day agenda below! Featuring 3 keynote talk themes with related early-career speakers, data blitz session, panel discussion. Don't miss it! #SPSP
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Headed to #SPSP?
I’ll be presenting Saturday (9:30–10:40am, E258) in the symposium “What Do We Value in Leaders?”
I’ll share some of our work on gender and dominance- vs. prestige-based stereotypes vs. preferences for leaders.
Would love to see you there!
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I am happy to announce that I will be presenting at SPSP 2026 annual convention at Chicago! I would love to hear Chicago recommendations :))
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Interested in why moral conflict is so common on social media?
Join us at #SPSP 2026 for our symposium. We’ll present new findings on how platforms shape digital discourse and explore pathways toward healthier online environments
🗓 Saturday, the 28th | 9:30–10:40 AM
📍 Room E270, Level 2
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If you're attending #SPSP, come check out the museum our department started! You can play around with behavioral science demos; eat free food; and maybe leave with some free swag. Register here: forms.gle/pTqBu5Pvaayn... @spspnews.bsky.social
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“¡Libres!” #SPSP
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“Libres”
Maduro Is Gone, but Repression in Venezuela Has Intensified #SPSP
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/07/w...
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