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leftists and rightists emotional responses are shaped by the emotional responses of their political outgroup

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November 28, 2023 at 7:28 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
Socioeconomic status self-deception - "motivated tendency to perceive oneself as having a higher subjective status than would correspond to objective conditions" - predicts lower redistribution support , status anxiety & relative deprivation

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title page for paper: Socioeconomic status self- deception as a way to perpetuate classist societies
October 13, 2024 at 3:16 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
People’s reactions to terrorism may be driven more by anger than fear

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November 5, 2023 at 5:30 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
People experience climate hopelessness when they see climate change as a massive problem with futile response options. Can that be changed?

Yes! Learning about climate innovations reduces hopelessness

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November 28, 2023 at 7:34 PM
joelleforestier.bsky.social
#PsychSciSky #socialPsychology #socPsych
July 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
Fact checks can change specific beliefs, but do they change broader beliefs about the phenomenon?

Not in the case of 2022 AZ governor's election.

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November 22, 2023 at 1:22 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
Over the 2020 US and NZ elections, antidemocratic attitudes preceded conspiracy beliefs, rather than conspiracy beliefs fostering antidemocratic attitudes

by @lindaskitka.bsky.social & many others in @ispp-pops.bsky.social #socpsych #polisky #polpsych

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Screenshot of paper title which reads "Conspiracy beliefs and democratic backsliding: Longitudinal effects of election conspiracy beliefs on criticism of democracy and support for authoritarianism during political contests". Paper abstract that reads, "There are widespread concerns that conspiracy theories undermine democracies. But do conspiracy beliefs increase criticism of democracy and/or support for authoritarianism? Or are antidemocratic people more likely to endorse conspiracy beliefs? To answer these important questions, we collected longitudinal data during two concurrent democratic elections—the 2020 US Presidential Election (N = 609) and the 2020 General Election in New Zealand (N = 603). Random intercept cross-lagged panel models tested whether conspiracy beliefs affect criticism of democracy in general, as well as support for authoritarianism, and both direct and representative democracy, specifically. There was little evidence that conspiracy beliefs temporally preceded changes in attitudes toward democracy or support for any specific form of government. Instead, people who supported authoritarianism more subsequently endorsed stronger conspiracy beliefs. The results suggested that, in the context of electoral contests (e.g., elections), antidemocratic people are more likely to endorse conspiracy beliefs rather than conspiracy beliefs fostering antidemocratic views."
January 23, 2025 at 2:38 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
Experiments in Germany, Greece, Ireland, and Poland finds that prebunks and debunks both help reduce belief in and sharing misinformation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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September 10, 2024 at 5:37 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
In more Republican states, Republicans live longer than Democrats. No such difference emerges in more Democratic states.

Found in both GSS death data and obituaries

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#polisky #PsychSciSky #socpsych #healthpolicy #sociology #polpsy
November 14, 2023 at 1:33 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
Asian people and Black people can both face dehumanization in the US, but the type differs: Asian = machine, Black = animal

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#prejudice #socpsych #polpsych #psyscisky
Abstract that reads How different racial minorities experience racism differently remains underexplored in existing research. Here, we show that Asian and Black people are often dehumanized differently. Twelve studies spotlight a racial asymmetry in dehumanization using a wide array of methods (experimental, archival, and computational) and data sources (online samples, word embeddings, and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data): Whereas Black people are more often subjected to animalistic dehumanization, Asian people are predominantly subjected to mechanistic dehumanization. We demonstrate this asymmetry from the vantage point of victims (Studies 1a and 1b) and perpetrators (Studies 2a–2d). We further document the prevalence of this asymmetry across diverse domains, from everyday language (Study 3) to perceptions in the realms of romantic relationships (Study 4a), crime rates (Study 4b), and business skills (Study 4c). Finally, we demonstrate the asymmetry’s real-world consequences in labor market segregation (Studies 5 and 6). Our findings shed light on the distinct experiences of racism encountered by different racial groups and, more critically, introduce a framework that unifies and integrates scattered empirical observations on perceptions of Asian people.
December 9, 2024 at 3:07 PM
socpsychbasel.bsky.social
Lab member Melissa Jauch @melissajauch.bsky.social has made it to Bluesky! 👋 Give her a follow and discover her research on social exclusion and connection, in politics and everyday relationships #socpsych #socialpsychology
melissajauch.bsky.social Melissa Jauch @melissajauch.bsky.social · Feb 13
I finally made my way to Bluesky—hi everyone! 👋

I'm a PostDoc in Social Psychology @unibas.ch. I'm curious about what makes people feel excluded and what brings them together—both on an interpersonal and political level.
February 13, 2025 at 11:30 AM
mjbsp.bsky.social
Different interventions work best for promoting social equality among Israeli conservatives, centrists, and liberals

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September 7, 2024 at 1:17 PM
arothers.bsky.social
New preprint:

The poles in polarization: Social categorization and affective polarization in multiparty systems

#SocPsych #PolPsy #PoliSky

…in which I suggest and test a statistical procedure to identify how people construe the landscape of political parties.
November 23, 2023 at 10:54 AM
mjbsp.bsky.social
Anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish hate serve as substitutes for one another in US far right groups.

In these groups, hate remains high, but the target shifts in both hateful rhetoric and hate crimes.

#polisky #socpsych

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September 12, 2023 at 2:06 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
An introduction to the counterfactual framework of causality with a special emphasis on applications to misinformation and conspiracy theories

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September 6, 2024 at 1:01 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
A new tool for analyzing political conversations?

"A Practical Guide to Conversation Research: How to Study What People Say to Each Other"

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November 20, 2023 at 1:25 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
Summary of 131 empirical and theory papers on belief in conspiracy theories by variable (current through mid-2019) by @jprims.bsky.social!

#polisky #socpsych #psychsci
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October 26, 2023 at 5:24 PM
socpsychbasel.bsky.social
🙌 Congrats to lab members @chrbuettner.bsky.social, @ealbath.bsky.social & Rainer Greifeneder + @selmarudert.bsky.social & coauthors on this new JPSP publication 👏👏. It has EVERYTHING you need to know about #narcissism and #ostracism! Check it out 👇
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February 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
Over the last weeks, I've been posting about all of this years winners of @spspnews.bsky.social's emerging scholar award!

Collecting them all here and in the next post!

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November 9, 2023 at 5:18 PM
mjbsp.bsky.social
Experimentally improving people’s feelings about opposing partisans does not improve truth discernment of news

An accuracy prompt did a bit better, especially for people low in need for chaos

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Abstract that reads, Why do people spread false misinformation online? Previous studies have linked affective polar- ization with misinformation sharing and belief. Contrary to these largely observational findings, however, we show that experimentally improving people’s feelings about opposing partisans (ver- sus members of their own party) has no measurable effect on people’s intentions to share true news, false news, or the difference between them, known as discernment. By contrast, we find evidence that a reminder of accuracy can modestly improve truth discernment among people who report sharing political news. These results suggest the need for a reexamination of the role of affective polarization in the dissemination of misinformation online.
December 12, 2024 at 1:22 AM
metacognishane.bsky.social
Some persuasive bullshitting leverages "unclarifiable unclarity" in the form of inpenetrable jargon, buzzwords, & complexity. Rather than a "disregard for truth" this common type of BS is built on "disregard for clarity or meaning."

See: www.professorsapp.com/cohen--furth...

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November 14, 2023 at 5:46 PM
kimechaney.bsky.social
Submissions are now open for APA 2024 in Seattle! Submit for Division 8 before Jan 10th - reach out via email with questions! at.apa.org/pvn5 #PsychSciSky #socpsych @spspnews.bsky.social
November 22, 2023 at 7:08 PM
alisabokulich.bsky.social
@cailinmeister.bsky.social & @jimweatherall.bsky.social of UC, Irvine will discuss their book, “The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread,” online & in-person at ASU Thursday, Oct. 5, 5 - 6 p.m. MST
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🧪 #scipol #PsychSciSky #socpsych #philsci
October 4, 2023 at 9:13 PM
jowylie.bsky.social
check out our new piece in Aeon/Psyche about why we love bad guys! this was a nice change of pace from the usual academic writing (and working with an editor is amazing; 10/10 experience). #PsychSciSky #socpsych #psychology
anagantman.bsky.social ana gantman @anagantman.bsky.social · Nov 21
why do we love stories about bad guys? in a piece for Aeon/Psyche, @jowylie.bsky.social and i argue we are filling in our social maps with rich information about the circumstances and history that shape the minds and motives of these characters psyche.co/ideas/what-i...
What is it about film and TV antiheroes that’s so captivating? | Psyche Ideas
They’re entertaining, of course – but research highlights a deeper psychological reason viewers are drawn to the bad guys
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November 22, 2023 at 4:59 PM
sewenz.bsky.social
From the abstract: "[...] Our results failed to replicate the impact of co-opetition on flexibility, suggesting that conflicting demands might facilitate cognitive flexibility only in case of other types of intraindividual conflict."

#replication #socpsych #psychology
January 7, 2026 at 1:07 PM